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Commit 008608b9 authored by Andres Freund's avatar Andres Freund
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Avoid the use of a separate spinlock to protect a LWLock's wait queue.

Previously we used a spinlock, in adition to the atomically manipulated
->state field, to protect the wait queue. But it's pretty simple to
instead perform the locking using a flag in state.

Due to 6150a1b0 BufferDescs, on platforms (like PPC) with > 1 byte
spinlocks, increased their size above 64byte. As 64 bytes are the size
we pad allocated BufferDescs to, this can increase false sharing;
causing performance problems in turn. Together with the previous commit
this reduces the size to <= 64 bytes on all common platforms.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: CAA4eK1+ZeB8PMwwktf+3bRS0Pt4Ux6Rs6Aom0uip8c6shJWmyg@mail.gmail.com
    20160327121858.zrmrjegmji2ymnvr@alap3.anarazel.de
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