On 2016-04-21 14:15:53 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Thomas Munro
> <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > On the WaitEventSet thread I posted a small patch to add kqueue
> > support[1]. Since then I peeked at how some other software[2]
> > interacts with kqueue and discovered that there are platforms
> > including NetBSD where kevent.udata is an intptr_t instead of a void
> > *. Here's a version which should compile there. Would any NetBSD
> > user be interested in testing this? (An alternative would be to make
> > configure to test for this with some kind of AC_COMPILE_IFELSE
> > incantation but the steamroller cast is simpler.)
>
> Did you code this up blind or do you have a NetBSD machine yourself?
RMT, what do you think, should we try to get this into 9.6? It's
feasible that the performance problem 98a64d0bd713c addressed is also
present on free/netbsd.
- Andres