Re: [PATCH] Native spinlock support on RISC-V

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Marek Szuba <marecki(at)gentoo(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Native spinlock support on RISC-V
Date: 2021-08-13 16:03:28
Message-ID: 73691.1628870608@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2021-08-13 11:09:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Marek Szuba <marecki(at)gentoo(dot)org> writes:
>>> Tested against PostgreSQL 13.3 on a physical rv64gc system (BeagleV
>>> Starlight beta board) - builds and installs fine, all tests pass.

> Should we backpatch this? It's not like we're going to break existing
> risc-v systems by enabling spinlock support...

Yeah, why not? If you were building with --disable-spinlocks before,
this shouldn't change anything for you.

(I haven't actually looked at the patch, mind you, but in principle
it shouldn't break anything that worked before.)

regards, tom lane

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