Excerpts from Markus Wanner's message of mar jul 20 14:36:55 -0400 2010: > > I'm also unconvinced that spinlocks are the best locking primitive here. > > Why not lwlocks? > > It's derived from a completely lock-free algorithm, as proposed by Maged > M. Michael in: Scalable Lock-Free Dynamic Memory Allocator.
Hmm, deriving code from a paper published by IBM sounds like bad news -- who knows what patents they hold on the techniques there? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
