Re: [HACKERS] Requirement for the Buffer manager to load multiple pages at once

2010-12-04 Thread Vaibhav Kaushal
Thank you Kevin. I am going to look into it. I still have to learn a lot :) Regards, Vaibhav On 12/4/10, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Vaibhav Kaushal wrote: > >> I want to parallelize the search / scan (specifically hash) by >> using multiple cores in the processors today. > > You might want to revi

Re: [HACKERS] Requirement for the Buffer manager to load multiple pages at once

2010-12-04 Thread Kevin Grittner
Vaibhav Kaushal wrote: > I want to parallelize the search / scan (specifically hash) by > using multiple cores in the processors today. You might want to review the efforts of Markus Wanner, who submitted a series of patches intended to move things in that direction to a recent CommitFest: h

[HACKERS] Requirement for the Buffer manager to load multiple pages at once

2010-12-03 Thread Vaibhav Kaushal
Hi all, I have gone through the code a bit more this time and I think that what I originally thought of as a task of executor in the beginning (as I read the documentation) seems to be split at multiple points. So i am asking a question based on what I have understood so far. Keeping it a bit orga