Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > (I wonder if we shouldn't just align every shared memory allocation to > 64 or 128 bytes. It wouldn't waste much memory and it would make us > much more resistant to performance changes caused by minor > modifications to the shared memory layout.)
I could get behind this idea if we had a reasonably clear idea of the hardware's cache line width, but AFAIK there is no portable way to identify that. (This is a pretty fatal objection to Simon's original patch as well...) regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers