Re: Proposal: New LWLockmode LW_OWNER

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@Sun.COM> writes:
>>> New Lock Mode Proposed: LW_EX_OWNER  (input on better name will be 
>>> appreciated).

> We do something like this in the sinval code -- see SIGetDataEntry.

Yeah, that analogy occurred to me later --- EX_OWNER would be a close
match to what sinval is doing.  However, adding a third mode to LWLocks
would certainly introduce extra cycles into what is already a hotspot,
and one use-case that is already working fine without it doesn't seem
like much of an argument.  (ProcArray isn't a use-case because of the
commit interlock problem, and I didn't see any other proposed uses
that weren't mere hand-waving.)
        regards, tom lane