Re: [BUGS] BUG #2401: spinlocks not available on amd64

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Theo Schlossnagle <jesus(at)omniti(dot)com>, josh(dot)berkus(at)sun(dot)com, robert(dot)lor(at)sun(dot)com, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #2401: spinlocks not available on amd64
Date: 2006-04-27 23:02:06
Message-ID: 16483.1146178926@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Great, changes attached and applied. I removed the solaris_i386 and
> solaris_x86_64.s files and made just one solaris_x86.s. I updated the
> build system to use the new file, updated the macros, and added some
> documentation on the approach. Thanks.

BTW, on the replacement of ldstub with cas: according to what I find in
google, cas does not exist on pre-V9 SPARCs. Are we sure no one uses
sparc v8 chips anymore? Is there any actual advantage to making that
change?

regards, tom lane

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