On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:08:56AM +0100, Reinhard Max wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 at 13:28, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The SuSE PPC guru said that the PPC spinlock code we currently use > > > may behave erroneously on multiprocessor systems. > > > > What's his evidence for that claim? > > Let's ask himself. > > > The code we have is based directly on the recommendations in the PPC > > manuals, and has been tested on multi-CPU systems. > > Marcus, can you explain the details, please?
I reviewed the documentation again (at:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/articles/powerpc.html
) and it seems to agree with your opinion.
I retract my comment, leave your code as-is.
Ciao, Marcus
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