Re: centralize CPU feature detection

John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>

From: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, root <tenistarkim@gmail.com>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-02-25T02:15:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 2:59 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> It appears that if you want to build pg_cpu_x86.o unconditionally,
> you need to make it more proof against the cases it wasn't getting
> built in before.

Thanks, I must have stopped watching the buildfarm too early. I've
pushed a fix which will get undone as part of v6-0002.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 2:57 AM Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com> wrote:
>
> 2 and 3 looks good too, I only found two more typos:
>
>
> + return pg_comp_crc32c(crc, data, len);
> +};
>
> That semicolon is not needed
>
>
> And in the commit message:
>
> "it has been intialized and if"
>
> That should be initialized

Also fixed, thanks.

-- 
John Naylor
Amazon Web Services

Commits

  1. Remove extraneous PGDLLIMPORT

  2. Refactor detection of x86 ZMM registers

  3. Centralize detection of x86 CPU features

  4. Fix USE_SLICING_BY_8_CRC32C builds on x86

  5. Rename pg_crc32c_sse42_choose.c for general purpose