On 2014-09-04 08:18:37 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.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?
I finally pushed this. And once more I seriously got pissed at the poor overall worldwide state of documentation and continously changing terminology around this. Sorry for taking this long :( Do you have a current version of your patch to make them compiler barriers? Andres Freund -- Andres Freund http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers