I will be speaking at Hotsos Symposium 2011 which will be held on March 6 — 10, 2011 in Dallas.
Of course, I will speak about “Contemporary Latch Internals“. I would like to post my abstract here:
“Latches in Oracle Database were radically changed during the last 10 years to achieve higher levels of concurrency and performance. Using oradebug and DTrace, this presentation explores how the latch works. Contemporary latch does not use exponential backoff, most of them spin 10 times more then expected, and they may wait for an infinite time in a queue.
This presentation will show how Oracle instruments the latch operations, discuss parameters and statistics related to latch performance diagnostics, and fine grain tuning. It will also explore the long-standing question: when and how to tune the “_spin_count” and “_latch_classes“. DTrace provides additional capabilities to measure effectiveness and statistical properties of latch in production.”
Some parts of this abstract were appeared in my blog and discussed in seminars. There will be many new topics!
The Hotsos Symposium is the unique conference dedicated to Oracle performance. Hopefully to see you there!
Latch, mutex and beyond 
I had the chance to attend your session at Hotsos. Your presentation was outstanding !
Thanks,
Romeo
Comment by Romeo Vasileniuc — March 8, 2011 @ 1:02 pm |