Re: Erroneous PPC spinlock code - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Erroneous PPC spinlock code
Date
Msg-id 200311100329.hAA3TWf03814@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Erroneous PPC spinlock code  (Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>)
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Marcus Meissner wrote:
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> 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 <peter_e@gmx.net> 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.

Cool.  Thanks for checking.

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