Re: Lockless StrategyGetBuffer() clock sweep

On 2014-12-23 16:42:41 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I don't think I have anything to say about the substance of the patch.
> If fetch-and-add is faster than a spinlock cycle, then it is.  And
> it's good to be fast.

I don't think the primary advantage is that it's fast (even though it
should be as fast as a single TAS on x86). It's that you can never sleep
while holding the spinlock when there's no such spinlock and that
everytime you transfer the cacheline from another cpu to you you'll also
make progress...

Will fix the other stuff.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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