Re: New statistics for WAL buffer dirty writes

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> IMHO, the way we have it now is kind of a mess.  SpinLockAcquire and
> SpinLockRelease are required to be CPU barriers, but they are not
> required to be compiler barriers.  If we changed that so that they
> were required to act as barriers of both flavors,

Since they are macros, how do you propose to do that exactly?

I agree that volatile-izing everything in the vicinity is a sucky
solution, but the last time we looked at this there did not seem to
be a better one.
        regards, tom lane