RE: AIX support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Srirama Kucherlapati
Subject RE: AIX support
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In response to Re: AIX support  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
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Hi Heikki,

 

As requested earlier, I need some assistance from the Postgres side to identify any tool or testcase to calibrate the sync routine performance in Postgres.

I see the below tools for benchmarking.

 

Please let me know, if these tools are fine or else ca you suggest us with any additional tools to run the benchmarking.

 

 

  > > Ok, if we don't need the assembler code at all, that's good. A patch to

  > > introduce AIX support should not change it for non-AIX powerpc systems

  > > though. That might be a good change, but would need to be justified

  > > separately, e.g.  by some performance testing, and should be a separate

  > > patch.

 

  > > If you make no changes to s_lock.h at all, will it work? Why not?

 

  > With the existing asm code I see there are some syntax errors, being hit.

  > But after reverting the old changes the issues resolved. Below are diffs.

 

  > Let me know if I need to run any perf tools to check the performance of

  > the __sync_lock_test_and_set change.

 

Thanks,

Sriram.

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