Re: Freezing without write I/O

Hi,

I agree with most of what you said - I think that's a littlebit too much
change for too little benefit.

On 2013-09-20 08:32:29 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Personally, I think the biggest change that would help here is to
> mandate that spinlock operations serve as compiler fences.  That would
> eliminate the need for scads of volatile references all over the
> place.

The effectively already do, don't they? It's an external, no-inlineable
function call (s_lock, not the actual TAS). And even if it were to get
inlined via LTO optimization, the inline assembler we're using is doing
the __asm__ __volatile__ ("...", "memory") dance. That's a full compiler
barrier.
The non-asm implementations call to OS/compiler primitives that are also
fences.

In the case I brougth up here there is no spinlock or something similar.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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