[users@httpd] Re: configure bug? concerning use of nonportable atomics

[Otheus <ot...@gmail.com>]

Is there a better mailing group for my question? One with more
developers perhaps?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Otheus <ot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> A user on unix.com posted this query :
>
> > Does anyone know or know how to check if the Apache 2.2 version you can get with the Synaptic Package manager in Ubuntu 8.10has been optimized for 486 or higher processors?
>
> He then quotes from the documentation on tuning:
> > By default, APR uses mutex-based atomics on Linux. If you configure with --enable-nonportable-atomics, however, APR generates code that uses a 486 opcode for fast hardware compare-and-swap. This will result in more efficient atomic operations, but the resulting executable will run only on 486 and later chips (and not on 386).
>
>  Looking into this, I discovered that the APR's configure code will
> use generic atomics (as opposed to inline assembly) under all x86
> platforms *except* i386 and x86_64 (and unless specifically overridden
> on the command line). Here's the thread in the mailing list which
> includes the patch and commentary (but not rationale) from
> jorton@apache.org in 2004:
>    http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/apr-commits/200401.mbox/<20...@minotaur.apache.org>
>
> My question is: *why* ?? Why default to generic atomics on i486's and
> later, but not x86_64? I think this is a bug in the configure logic,
> but I'm not sure.
>
>
> --
> Otheus
> otheus@gmail.com
> +43.699.1049.7813



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