Re: "stuck spinlock"

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
Subject: Re: "stuck spinlock"
Date: 2013-12-13 15:37:24
Message-ID: 20131213153724.GM29402@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-12-13 10:30:48 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2013-12-13 09:52:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I think you're probably right:
> >> what should be in the interrupt handler is something like
> >> "if (ImmediateInterruptOK) CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS();"
>
> > Yea, that sounds right. Or just don't set process interrupts there, it
> > doesn't seem to be required for correctness?
>
> It is if we need to break out of a wait-for-lock ...

Right, that uses MyProc->sem and not MyProc->procLatch...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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