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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Erroneous PPC spinlock code
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Msg-id 3701.1068056923@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Erroneous PPC spinlock code  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Erroneous PPC spinlock code  (Reinhard Max <max@suse.de>)
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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?  The code we have is based directly
on the recommendations in the PPC manuals, and has been tested on
multi-CPU systems.
        regards, tom lane

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