I don't think so. PostgreSQL has a fast implementation of its dispatcher that works well. The kernel change introduces a regression in the performance of Postgr

I don't think so. PostgreSQL has a fast implementation of its dispatcher that works well. The kernel change introduces a regression in the performance of PostgreSQL and potentially other programs doing the same style of locking. The kernel people are not suggesting that PostgreSQL use a different implementation; they do not want to break working code, and are treating this code change as a regression that needs to be fixed in the kernel. In the comments, the article author writes: FWIW, the discussion in kernelland was based on the assumption that this regression was the kernel's problem. Nobody there suggested telling the PostgreSQL developers to come up with a new locking scheme.