Re: [Maria-developers] Segmented Key Cache - About section

2010-05-19 Thread Daniel Bartholomew
On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:14:15 -0700 Igor Babaev wrote: Daniel> The original sentence from the worklog reads: Daniel> So threads compete for this lock even in the case when they Daniel> have acquired shared locks for the file and pages they want Daniel> read from are in the key cache b

Re: [Maria-developers] Segmented Key Cache - About section

2010-05-19 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Igor Babaev wrote: > Henrik Ingo wrote: >> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Igor Babaev wrote: >>> 1. the author of the original patch >>> 2. our community members (not only PeterZ!) >>> 3. our developers >>> >>> what term they prefer 'Segmented Key Cache' or 'Par

Re: [Maria-developers] Segmented Key Cache - About section

2010-05-18 Thread Igor Babaev
Another consideration: They use 'segments' when talk about different parts of something. Webster's dictionary gives you an example: . Partitions are assumed to be always similar. In the future new models of key cache will appear for sure, in particular those ones where parts of the key cache will

Re: [Maria-developers] Segmented Key Cache - About section

2010-05-18 Thread Igor Babaev
Henrik Ingo wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Igor Babaev wrote: >> 1. the author of the original patch >> 2. our community members (not only PeterZ!) >> 3. our developers >> >> what term they prefer 'Segmented Key Cache' or 'Partitioned Key Cache'. >> >> To be quite honest I also should m

Re: [Maria-developers] Segmented Key Cache - About section

2010-05-18 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Igor Babaev wrote: > 1. the author of the original patch > 2. our community members (not only PeterZ!) > 3. our developers > > what term they prefer 'Segmented Key Cache' or 'Partitioned Key Cache'. > > To be quite honest I also should mention that MichaelR from Or

Re: [Maria-developers] Segmented Key Cache - About section

2010-05-17 Thread Igor Babaev
Daniel, all I would like to avoid these discussions because they take me a lot of time. Anyway I have to participate. The author of the original patch Fredrik Nylander called the new key cache structure 'segmented key cache'. When I started working on the submitted patch I immediately realized

[Maria-developers] Segmented Key Cache - About section

2010-05-13 Thread Daniel Bartholomew
Hello everyone, I'm working on the documentation for the Segmented Key Cache, one of the new features in MariaDB 5.2. The documentation page will have "about", "syntax", and "example" sections. I've based the "About" section on the High-Level Description from the worklog ( http://askmonty.org/wo