On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
> >> Allow Pin/UnpinBuffer to operate in a lockfree manner.
> >
> > Now that I've had some occasion to look around in bufmgr.c, I am very
> > unhappy that there are still boatloads of comments talking about a buffer
> > header's spinlock, when there is in fact no spinlock anymore.  Please
> > expend some effort on making this less confusing for the next hacker.
> > Maybe make those comments talk about a "lock bit" instead?
>
> I was actually going to complain about this, too.  I noticed it over
> the weekend when noodling around with another patch.  I'm not sure
> exactly how it should be revised, but I find the current state of
> things confusing.
>

+1
Do we have consensus on renaming "buffer header spinlock" to "buffer header
lock bit"?
If so, I can provide a patch for it.

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Alexander Korotkov
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