> That would be great.  What I've been using as a test case is pgbench
> -S -c $NUM_CPU_CORES -j $NUM_CPU_CORES with scale factor 100 and
> shared_buffers=8GB.
> 
> I think what you'd want to compare is the performance of unpatched
> master, vs. the performance with this line added to s_lock.h for your
> architecture:
> 
> #define TAS_SPIN(lock)  (*(lock) ? 1 : TAS(lock))
> 
> We've now added that line for ia64 (the line is present in two
> different places in the file, one for GCC and the other for HP's
> compiler).  So the question is whether we need it for any other
> architectures.

Ok. Let me talk to IBM guys...
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