Re: better atomics - v0.5

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Subject: Re: better atomics - v0.5
Date: 2014-06-25 21:42:37
Message-ID: 53AB424D.8030306@vmware.com
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On 06/25/2014 11:36 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>
>> >- I completely loathe the file layout you've proposed in
>> >src/include/storage. If we're going to have separate #include files
>> >for each architecture (and I'd rather we didn't go that route, because
>> >it's messy and unlike what we have now), then shouldn't that stuff go
>> >in src/include/port or a new directory src/include/port/atomics?
>> >Polluting src/include/storage with a whole bunch of files called
>> >atomics-whatever.h strikes me as completely ugly, and there's a lot of
>> >duplicate code in there.
> I don't mind moving it somewhere else and it's easy enough to change.

I think having a separate file for each architecture is nice. I totally
agree that they don't belong in src/include/storage, though. s_lock.h
has always been misplaced there, but we've let it be for historical
reasons, but now that we're adding a dozen new files, it's time to move
them out.

- Heikki

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