Success is Oh So Sweet!
Success is Oh So Sweet! I was able to keep up with the OPRA flow this morning for the first time in many weeks. All the necessary changes were now OK, as I'd cracked a big performance problem on the ticker plants. I still have one more: the ConflationQueue still has a boost spinlock, and as my tests have shown, that's a performance killer when more than one thread access it, but not nearly as bad as any other alternative I could come up with.
What I want now is to come up with a way to remove the spinlock from the ConflationQueue and I'll be one happy camper. But for now, I can move on to other things that need my pressing attention.