Re: [APC-DEV] Spinlock code

I'd be interested in doing this, assuming no one wants to jump up and  
do it first.  I have pthread mutex locking support that I would like  
to finish up first. (as a better alternative to the futex locking).

On Dec 10, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> Anybody feel like taking a shot at implementing spinlocks?  I have  
> been
> looking through the Postgres-8.2 code and I talked a bit with Bruce
> Momjian about their implementation and I think we could lift a good
> amount of code to get portable spinlocks from them.
>
> See:
>
> postgresql-8.2.0/src/include/storage/s_lock.h
>
> And also see how they are used in:
>
> postgresql-8.2.0/src/backend/storage/lmgr/lwlock.c
>
> PostgreSQL is completely BSD-licensed, so it is a good place to steal
> code from.
>
> -Rasmus
>
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