> > For a while I though it might be because we are using an alpha TAS in
> > the spinlock rather than the old semaphore. I replaced our spinlock
> > with the standard one and it made no difference. We have been running
> > with our spinlock implementation for nearly 2 months on a production
> > database now without a hitch, so I think it is ok. Did I ever submit
> > any patches for the Alpha spinlock?
>
> 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, which has the advantage that it works
well even on multi-processor machines, but the disadvantage that it is not
the fastest way possible. Writing a spinlock on Alpha for SMP machines is
very difficult, as you need to deal with memory barriers. A real mess. But
then one of the people at Compaq pointed out to us that there is a
ready-made routine on Alpha. We implemented it with the two patches below.
I ran tests with lots of parallel back-ends and got around a 10% speed
increase. I include the two patches. Perhaps some of the other people
running Tru64 can have a look at these as well.
Cheers,
Adriaan Joubert
PostgreSQL-7.0.2 run on Linux for the Intel-IA64 architecture. It also
fixes a bug in the configure scripts that caused configure to fail on
the fcntl(F_SETLK) test.
This fix triggered a bug in the fcntl(F_SETLK) code of the Linux
kernel when used on unix domain sockets resulting in postmaster to
segfault immediately after startup. There is a fix available and
included in the kernel that will be on SuSE Linux 7.0, but kernels <=
2.2.16 still have this bug.
Reinhard Max
spin-locks. Notice that it's now inline assembler in s_lock.h,
rather than seperate code in s_lock.c. It also shrank a little
bit... Just rip out the S_LOCK() define and insert the tas() inline
function. Please let me know if there are any problems with it.
Jon Buller
1. The UnixWare tas macro was reformatted (by indent or it like?) which caused
it to break. The asm macro construct is very particular about the %mem
construct -- it has to start in column 1.
2. When compiling libpq++, g++ was used even if configure found the C++ com-
piler to be CC.
3. When compiling libpq++, '-Wno-error' was added to CXXFLAGS, even if the
compiler wasn't g++.
Billy G. Allie
Summary of changes:
In pqcomm.h, use the SUN_LEN macro if it is defined to calculate
the size of the sockaddr_un structure.
In unixware.h, drop the use of the UNIXWARE macro. Everything can
be handled with the USE_UNIVEL_CC and DISABLE_COMPLEX_MACRO macros.
In s_lock.h, remove the reference to the UNIXWARE macro (see above).
In the unixware template, add the YFLAGS:-d line.
In various makefile templates, add (or cleanup) unixware and univel
port specific information.
-- Billy G. Allie
in a more readable form. -- I am submitting the following patches
to the June 6, 1998 snapshot of PostgreSQL. These patches implement
a port of PostgreSQL to SCO UnixWare 7, and updates the Univel port
(UnixWare 2.x). The patched files, and the reason
for the patch are:
File Reason for the patch ---------------
---------------------------------------------------------------
src/backend/port/dynloader/unixware.c src/backend/port/dynloader/unixware.h
src/include/port/unixware.h src/makefiles/Makefile.unixware
src/template/unixware
Created for the UNIXWARE port.
src/include/port/univel.h
Modifed this file to work with the changes made to
s_lock.[ch].
src/backend/storage/buffer/s_lock.c src/include/storage/s_lock.h
Moved the UNIXWARE (and Univel) tas() function from
s_lock.c to s_lock.h. The UnixWare compiler asm
construct is treated as a macro and needs to be in
the s_lock.h file. I also reworked the tas()
function to correct some errors in the code.
src/include/version.h.in
The use of the ## operator with quoted strings in
the VERSION macro caused problems with the UnixWare
C compiler. I removed the ## operators since they
were not needed in this case. The macro expands
into a sequence of quoted strings that will be
concatenated by any ANSI C compiler.
src/config.guess
This script was modified to recognize SCO UnixWare
7.
src/configure src/configure.in
The configure script was modified to recognize SCO
UnixWare 7.
Billy G. Allie
NS32K machine I contributed. In any case, I now have postgresql-6.3
running again on NetBSD/pc532, a NS32532 machine. The following
changes are needed relative to the src directory. (It looks like
support was partially removed when the files were moved from the
src/backend/storage/.... tree to the src/include tree.)
If you need me to get a current development version of postgresql
for this change let me know. Also, let me know if this code needs
updating due to another code movement that deleted the old NS32K
support.
Thank you.
Phil Nelson
GCC, the inner "#if defined(__GNUC__)" can just be omitted in that
architecture's block.
The existing arrangement with an outer "#if defined(__GNUC__)"
doesn't have any obvious benefit, and it encourages missed cases
like this one.
BTW, I'd suggest making the definition of clear_lock for HPUX be
static const slock_t clear_lock = {{-1, -1, -1, -1}};
The extra braces are needed to suppress warnings from gcc, and
declaring it const just seems like good practice.
regards, tom lane
but as I don't have access to a sparc for testing I just did what
I could. I am guessing here, but please apply the following to your
pgsql and let me know what happens. Also, cd to src/storage/buffer
and do 'make s_lock_test' as well.
David Gould
This incorporates all the precedeing patches and emailed suggestions
and the results of the performance testing I posted last week. I
would like to get this tested on as many platforms as possible so
I can verify it went in correctly (as opposed to the horrorshow
last time I sent in a patch).
Once this is confirmed, I will make a tarball of files that can be
dropped into a 6.3.2 source tree as a few people have asked for
this in 6.3.2 as well.
David Gould
Attached patch will add a version() function to Postges, e.g.
template1=> select version();
version
------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 6.3.2 on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.8.1
(1 row)
Ok, I have finally gotten all of the defines for Dec/Alpha and
Linux/Alpha sorted out as Marc asked. There is no longer any need for
'-Dalpha' or '-Dlinuxalpha' in either the Dec/Alpha or the Linux/Alpha
template files (./src/template/{alpha,linuxalpha}). I have replaced every
instance of 'alpha' or '__alpha__' with '__alpha', as that appears to be
the common symbol between C compilers on both operating systems (RH4.2 &
DecUnix 4.0b) for alpha.
The following patches will allow postgreSQL 6.3 to compile and run on a
UNIXWARE 2.1.2 system with the native C compiler with the following library
change:
The alloca function must be copied from the libucb.a archive and added
to the libgen.a archive.
Also, the GNU flex program is needed to successfully build postgreSQL.
Only occurrs in
src/include/storage/s_lock.h:#if defined(__AIX)
src/include/utils/dt.h:#if defined(__AIX)
src/include/utils/nabstime.h:#if defined(__AIX)
Simply delete one underscore, only occurs once per file, so no patch.
Apart from this Makefile hack, all I've done is to make dynamically
loaded code modules fail properly (as was already done for __mips__,
although I think this is too loose: I believe NetBSD for the pmax can
do dynamic linking), and to add test-and-set lock handling. As Bruce
suggested, this is done in a maximally efficient inlined way: I was
not aware that this code was so important, speed-wise.