Shouldn’t we have waited for buffer busy waits while waiting CBC latch？

With regular logical  IOs the buffer contents are not read while holding the CBC(Cache Buffer Chian) latch:

1.  1#  Take CBC latch into shared mode
2.  2# Walk the buffer hash chain until you find the relevant buffer header
3.  3# Upgrade the CBC latch to Exclusive mode
4.  4# Pin the buffer header
5.  5 # Release the CBC latch
6.  6 # Now access the buffer data( call transaction,  data layer etc)   — if someone else wants to pin the buffer now , they’d wait for buffer busy waits
7.  7# Take the CBC latch again(in shared mode)
8.  8$ Unpin the buffer header
9.  10# Release the CBC latch

Sometimes “short” logical IOs can skip a few steps

with “short” LIOs like unique index lookup LIO(etc) Oracle can avoid the buffer pinning codepath:

1.  1# Take CBC altch in shared mode
2.  2# Walk the buffer hash chain until you find the relevant buffer header — This show up as consistent reads – examination  conter in v$sesstat
3.  3# Now access the buffer data
4.  4# Release the CBC latch

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