* Kevin Grittner ([email protected]) wrote: > Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote: > > perhaps it would be possible by, say, increasing the number of > > lock partitions by 8x. It would be nice to segregate these issues > > though, because using pread/pwrite is probably a lot less work > > than rewriting our lock manager. > > You mean easier than changing this 4 to a 7?: > > #define LOG2_NUM_LOCK_PARTITIONS 4 > > Or am I missing something?
I'm pretty sure we were talking about the change described in the paper
of moving to a system which uses atomic changes instead of spinlocks for
certain locking situations..
If that's all the MIT folks did, they certainly made it sound like alot
more. :)
Stephen
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