That's two votes for spinning to acquire latches...I'm beginning to
feel we're onto something here. This may be a case in which observing
latch spin_counts would be worthwhile. Thanks, John!
PB
- John Kanagaraj <john.kanagaraj_at_hds.com> wrote:
> I believe what you are seeing is due to this: A 'latch free' wait
> does not
> register /unless and until/ the process requesting the latch
> 'sleeps', i.e.
> while it is spinning a Wait event is not registered. However, at this
> time,
> spinning consumes CPU without a context switch.
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