Re: Spinlocks and compiler/memory barriers

On September 4, 2014 2:18:37 PM CEST, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
>wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Andres Freund
><andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> > If you want to do that, it's fine with me. What I would do is:
>>>> >
>>>> > - Back-patch the addition of the sparcv8+ stuff all the way. If
>>>> > anyone's running anything older, let them complain...
>>>> > - Remove the special case for MIPS without gcc intrinsics only in
>>>> > master, leaving the back-branches broken. If anyone cares, let
>them
>>>> > complain...
>>>> > - Nothing else.
>>>>
>>>> I've gone ahead and done the second of these things.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>> Andres, do you want to go take a stab at fixing the SPARC stuff?
>>>
>>> Will do, will probably take me till thursday to come up with the
>brain
>>> cycles.
>>
>> Ping?
>
>This has been pending for almost two months now and, at your request,
>my patch to make spinlocks act as compiler barriers is waiting behind
>it. Can we please get this moving again soon, or can I commit that
>patch and you can fix this when you get around to it?

Yes. I plan to push the patch this weekend. Sorry for the delay.

Andres

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