Re: Alpha spinlock

Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Not that I recall. We did get some advice from some Alpha gurus at DEC
>> who seemed to think the existing TAS code is OK. What was it that you
>> felt needed to be improved?

> The current code uses semaphores,

Oh, I'm sorry, I was thinking about the Linux-Alpha code, for which
there has been an inline-assembly version of tas() for a long time;
and it was that code that we asked the DEC people about. I had
forgotten that the OSF port uses a different semaphore method.

Is there a reason we couldn't use the Linux-Alpha code on OSF too?
I'd just as soon minimize the difference between the two ports ...

regards, tom lane