I don't think bisect was of any particular help or hindrance in this case,
especially since the buffer patch as merged was fully bisected (thanks to
Taras).  The actual problem was in a related file that went in as part of
classification rather than the buffer restructure.

v2 of the patch follows Shmulik's suggestion, however.

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Mike Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 11 January 2015 at 11:58, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> The patch wasn't intended as a bug fix, but rather is intended to be a
>> more refined implementation of the buffer allocator that can permit better
>> performance scalability testing as we move into 2015.  It does have the
>> effect, however, of fixing a couple of reported bugs that were the result
>> of the previous implementation.
>>
>> I can post a repackaged version of this as v2 if that will ease getting
>> it reviewed for inclusion in ODP 0.8, however, it just means asking
>> reviewers to keep track of and apply multiple patches instead of one patch.
>>
>>
>
> I think it is worth it, as Ciprian found out with the big buffer patch we
> had impacted our ability to use bisect to narrow down an issue.
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Shmulik Ladkani <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:51:28 -0600 Bill Fischofer <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Because in the presence of local buffer caching it is not clear whether
>>> > lockless or lock-based allocation will scale better, this patch adds
>>> > compile-time support for selecting which sychronization mechanism to
>>> use.
>>> > By default lockless allocation is used. To enable lock-based allocation
>>> > change the USE_BUFFER_POOL_LOCKS define to 1.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> May I suggest splitting this as a patch set?
>>> Introducing USE_BUFFER_POOL_LOCKS seems independent of the actual bug
>>> fix.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Shmulik
>>>
>>
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