Compling Samba-2.2.5 with spinlocks using Sun Forte C

[Bogdan Iamandei]

David Collier-Brown wrote:
>  Adrian LEE wrote:
> 
>>>The code in tdb/spinlock.c related to spin locking on Sparc uses asm
>>>directives.  This module won't compile with Sun Forte C compiler.
>>>If you have a patch or similar, or point out I've forgotten to use
>>>a compiler option, to help my solve this problem, it would be
>>>much appreciated.
>>
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
>>Why do you need spinlocks?  The asm stuff is only compiled when we have
>>that option specified...
> 
> 
> 	The standard locks are reccomended, is there a 
> 	problem with them on your site?

According to my information, there *is* an acknowledged problem with
Solaris' fcntl locking causing excessive spins on mutexes. One of the
Sun engineers reccomended us (BTW: Adrian waves HI! from 2 meters away)
as a quick fix to use the spinlocks. Now, IMO that's not a really good
ideea, due to the *much* higher risks of having the whole thing on
spinlocks.

I'll send you the internal BugIDs over private mail, since I am not 
really sure what's the policy with making them public.

							Bogdan.

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