I wrote: > I think it would be possible to fix it in a less invasive way by taking > and releasing the ControlLock an extra time in SimpleLruReadPage and > SimpleLruWritePage. What's indeterminate about that is the performance > cost.
Attached is an alternative patch that does it this way. I realized that
we could use LWLockConditionalAcquire to usually avoid any extra lock
traffic, so the performance cost may be negligible except under the very
heaviest of loads. I still like the bigger patch for 8.2 and forward,
because it's a lot cleaner, but this seems like a credible alternative
for 8.1 and back branches.
Comments?
regards, tom lane
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Description: slru-race-2.patch
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