On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
On 2016-03-30 07:13:16 +0530, Dilip Kumar wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote: > > > My gut feeling is that we should do both 1) and 2). > > > > Dilip, could you test performance of reducing ppc's spinlock to 1 byte? > > Cross-compiling suggest that doing so "just works". I.e. replace the > > #if defined(__ppc__) typedef from an int to a char. > > > > I set that, but after that it hangs, even Initdb hangs..
Yea, as Tom pointed out that's not going to work. I'll try to write a patch for approach 1).
Great! Do you need any improvements for pinunpin-cas-7.patch from me?