Re: Wait free LW_SHARED acquisition - v0.9

Hi,

Attached you can find the next version of my LW_SHARED patchset. Now
that atomics are committed, it seems like a good idea to also add their
raison d'être.

Since the last public version I have:
* Addressed lots of Amit's comments. Thanks!
* Peformed a fair amount of testing.
* Rebased the code. The volatile removal made that not entirely
trivial...
* Significantly cleaned up and simplified the code.
* Updated comments and such
* Fixed a minor bug (unpaired HOLD/RESUME_INTERRUPTS in a corner case)

The feature currently consists out of two patches:
1) Convert PGPROC->lwWaitLink into a dlist. The old code was frail and
verbose. This also does:
* changes the logic in LWLockRelease() to release all shared lockers
when waking up any. This can yield some significant performance
improvements - and the fairness isn't really much worse than
before,
as we always allowed new shared lockers to jump the queue.

* adds a memory pg_write_barrier() in the wakeup paths between
dequeuing and unsetting ->lwWaiting. That was always required on
weakly ordered machines, but f4077cda2 made it more urgent. I can
reproduce crashes without it.
2) Implement the wait free LW_SHARED algorithm.

Personally I'm quite happy with the new state. I think it needs more
review, but I personally don't know of anything that needs
changing. There's lots of further improvements that could be done, but
let's get this in first.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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