On 7/25/25 15:02, Greg Burd wrote:
> Patch set is now:
>
> 1) remove freelist
>
> 2) remove buffer_strategy_lock
>
> 3) abstract clock-sweep to type and API
>
>
>
> -greg
Somehow including the test.c file as an attachment on my last email
confused the CI and
On 7/22/25 14:43, Greg Burd wrote:
> On 7/21/25 14:35, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2025-07-21 13:37:04 -0400, Greg Burd wrote:
>>> On 7/18/25 13:03, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Hello. Thanks again for taking the time to review the email and patch,
>
On 7/21/25 14:35, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2025-07-21 13:37:04 -0400, Greg Burd wrote:
>> On 7/18/25 13:03, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Hello. Thanks again for taking the time to review the email and patch,
>> I think we're onto something good here.
>>
in autoprewarm, it's a rather trivial
> patch. And I really couldn't measure regressions above the noise level, even
> if absurdly extreme use cases.
Hmmm... was "argue for keeping the clock sweep" supposed to read "argue
for keeping the freelist"?
> On 2025-0
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025, at 2:52 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
Hi,
On 2025-07-11 13:26:53 -0400, Greg Burd wrote:
In conversations [1] recently about considering how best to adapt the
code
to become NUMA-aware Andres commented, "FWIW, I've started to wonder
if we
shouldn't just
On Fri, Jul 11, 2025, at 2:50 PM, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 01:26:53PM -0400, Greg Burd wrote:
>> This change does remove the have_free_buffer() function used by the
>> contrib/pg_prewarm module. On the surface this doesn't seem to cause any
>>
Hello,
In conversations [1] recently about considering how best to adapt the code to
become NUMA-aware Andres commented, "FWIW, I've started to wonder if we
shouldn't just get rid of the freelist entirely" and because I'm a glutton for
punishment (and I think this idea has some merit) I took hi
On Jul 9 2025, at 12:35 pm, Andres Freund wrote:
> FWIW, I've started to wonder if we shouldn't just get rid of the freelist
> entirely. While clocksweep is perhaps minutely slower in a single
> thread than
> the freelist, clock sweep scales *considerably* better [1]. As it's rather
> rare to
