Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > In addition to the point Tom has made, I think it's also not correct that hppa > doesn't impose a burden: hppa is the only of our architectures that doesn't > actually support atomic operations, requiring us to have infrastructure to > backfill atomics using spinlocks. This does preclude some uses of atomics, > e.g. in signal handlers - I think Thomas wanted to do so for some concurrency > primitive.
Hmm, are you saying there's more of port/atomics/ that could be removed? What exactly? Do we really want to assume that all future architectures will have atomic operations? regards, tom lane