Improve spinlock performance for HP-UX, ia64, non-gcc.
At least on this architecture, it's very important to spin on a
non-atomic instruction and only retry the atomic once it appears
that it will succeed. To fix this, split TAS() into two macros:
TAS(), for trying to grab the lock the first time, and TAS_SPIN(),
for spinning until we get it. TAS_SPIN() defaults to same as TAS(),
but we can override it when we know there's a better way.
It's likely that some of the other cases in s_lock.h require
similar treatment, but this is the only one we've got conclusive
evidence for at present.
Branch
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master
Details
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http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c01c25fbe525869fa81237954727e1eb4b7d4a14
Modified Files
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src/backend/storage/lmgr/s_lock.c | 2 +-
src/include/storage/s_lock.h | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)