Hi,
On 2015-09-17 16:32:17 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> In walsender.c, walreceiver.c, walreceiverfuncs.c there are several
> places where volatile qualifiers are used apparently only to prevent
> reordering around spinlock operations. My understanding is that if
> potential load/store reordering around spinlock operations is the only
> reason for using volatile, 0709b7ee72e4bc71ad07b7120acd117265ab51d0
> made it unnecessary. For example see
> 6ba4ecbf477e0b25dd7bde1b0c4e07fc2da19348 which stripped some volatile
> qualifiers out of xlog.c.
Same in bufmgr.c et al. There it's actually rather annoying for new code
because volatile needs to be casted away in a bunch of places...
Greetings,
Andres Freund
