Use mutex hint bit in PPC LWARX instructions, where possible.
The hint bit makes for a small but measurable performance improvement
in access to contended spinlocks.
On the other hand, some PPC chips give an illegal-instruction failure.
There doesn't seem to be a completely bulletproof way to tell whether the
hint bit will cause an illegal-instruction failure other than by trying
it; but most if not all 64-bit PPC machines should accept it, so follow
the Linux kernel's lead and assume it's okay to use it in 64-bit builds.
Of course we must also check whether the assembler accepts the command,
since even with a recent CPU the toolchain could be old.
Patch by Manabu Ori, significantly modified by me.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5cfa8dd3007d7e953c6a03b0fa2215d97c581b0c
Modified Files
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configure | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
configure.in | 18 +++++++++++-
src/include/pg_config.h.in | 5 ++-
src/include/pg_config_manual.h | 18 +++++++++++
src/include/storage/s_lock.h | 4 ++
5 files changed, 104 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
