Re: Freezing without write I/O

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Freezing without write I/O
Date: 2013-09-20 15:11:10
Message-ID: 20130920151110.GA8508@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2013-09-20 16:47:24 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> I think we should go through the various implementations and make sure
> they are actual compiler barriers and then change the documented policy.

From a quick look
* S_UNLOCK for PPC isn't a compiler barrier
* S_UNLOCK for MIPS isn't a compiler barrier
* I don't know enough about unixware (do we still support that as a
platform even) to judge
* True64 Alpha I have no clue about
* PA-RISCs tas() might not be a compiler barrier for !GCC
* PA-RISCs S_UNLOCK might not be a compiler barrier
* HP-UX !GCC might not
* IRIX 5 seems to be a compiler barrier
* SINIX - I don't care
* AIX PPC - compiler barrier
* Sun - TAS is implemented in external assembly, normal function call,
compiler barrier
* Win(32|64) - compiler barrier
* Generic S_UNLOCK *NOT* necessarily a compiler barrier.

Ok, so I might have been a bit too optimistic...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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