| From: | Niyas Sait <niyas(dot)sait(at)linaro(dot)org> | 
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> | 
| Cc: | Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support | 
| Date: | 2022-12-01 17:20:20 | 
| Message-ID: | 7ff7c416-fdfe-517f-a65c-9e5bd8ff8cec@linaro.org | 
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On 07/11/2022 06:58, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>   #if defined(_WIN64)
>>>   static __forceinline void
>>>   spin_delay(void)
>>>   {
>>> +#ifdef _M_ARM64
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * arm64 way of hinting processor for spin loops optimisations
>>> +	 * ref: https://community.arm.com/support-forums/f/infrastructure-solutions-forum/48654/ssetoneon-faq
>>> +	*/
>>> +	__isb(_ARM64_BARRIER_SY);
>>> +#else
>>>   	_mm_pause();
>>> +#endif
>>>   }
>>>   #else
>>>   static __forceinline void
>>
>> I think we should just apply this, there seems very little risk of making
>> anything worse, given the gating to _WIN64 && _M_ARM64.
> 
> Seems so.  Hmm, where does _ARM64_BARRIER_SY come from?  Perhaps it
> would be better to have a comment referring to it from a different
> place than the forums of arm, like some actual docs?
_ARM64_BARRIER_SY is defined in Microsoft Arm64 intrinsic documentation 
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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/intrinsics/arm64-intrinsics?view=msvc-170#BarrierRestrictions
I couldn't find something more official for the sse2neon library part.
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Niyas
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