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Re: [PATCH] Native spinlock support on RISC-V

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2021-08-13T15:30:01Z
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Hi,

On 2021-08-13 11:09:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org> writes:
> > Tested against PostgreSQL 13.3 on a physical rv64gc system (BeagleV
> > Starlight beta board) - builds and installs fine, all tests pass.

Seems like a good idea to me.

> Cool ... I had hoped to acquire one of those myself, but I didn't
> make the cut.

Should we backpatch this? It's not like we're going to break existing
risc-v systems by enabling spinlock support...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Add RISC-V spinlock support in s_lock.h.