Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've compiled 8.0 beta 1 on a R5900 V3.1 (a playstation 2) running > > Linux (PS2 Linux 1) for portability testing. > > ... > > I'm wondering: would it be hard to fix the assembly spinlock code > > for the R5900? > > According to the previous port report from Red Hat, the PS2 chip simply > doesn't have any user-space TAS instruction, so you're pretty much stuck. > If you can find something that works, let us know.
Out of curiosity. If it lacks a tas instruction, is there really any smp implementation that runs on it? Why would postgres want spinlocks at all with only one processor? -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
