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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Interrupts vs signals
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 11:50:00 -0800
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Hi,
On 2021-11-11 09:06:01 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 12:27 AM Thomas Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Depending on how you implement them, one difference could be whether / when
> > > "slow" system calls (recv, poll, etc) are interrupted.
> >
> > Hopefully by now all such waits are implemented with latch.c facilities?
>
> Do read(), write(), etc. count? Because we certainly have raw calls to
> those functions in lots of places.
They can count, but only when used for network sockets or pipes ("slow
devices" or whatever the posix language is). Disk IO doesn't count as that. So
I don't think it'd be a huge issue.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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