Re: Spinlocks and compiler/memory barriers

Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2014-09-04 14:19:47 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Yes. I plan to push the patch this weekend. Sorry for the delay.

> I'm about to push this. Is it ok to first push it to master and only
> backpatch once a couple buildfarm cycles haven't complained?

It makes for a cleaner commit history if you push concurrently into
all the branches you intend to patch.  That also gives more buildfarm
runs, which seems like a good thing for this sort of patch.

That is, assuming that we ought to backpatch at all, which to my mind
is debatable.
        regards, tom lane