marko Which version is required? There is libpmem1-dev and libpmem2-dev available. See "binaries" at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pmdk

Work-in-progress PR available at https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/1773/commits (see second commit).

Old buildbot: http://buildbot.askmonty.org/buildbot/grid?branch=ok-10.6-uring-pmem&category=main&category=experimental

Currently testing the latter commit on old buildbot does not work as it fails on `Unmet build dependencies: libpmem-dev` until dbart has added package libpmem-dev to builders that run the 10.6 branch.

otto, thank you , I was not aware that libpmem2-dev exists. A quick look suggests that libpmem2 is an overkill for us; it seems to provide more high-level operations. We actually only use a tiny subset of what libpmem1 provides.

It might be acceptable to just invoke the IA-32/AMD64 clflush instruction directly, and in MDEV-14425 (hopefully 10.7) I might just do that. (There are also clflushopt and clwb in more recent processors, but for our limited ‘write-only’ use case of redo log blocks, any of these instructions should be fine.) Obviously, if we decide to go down this route later, we should invoke similar instructions on all supported processor architectures.)

Note that libpmem-dev is only available on amd64, arm64 and ppc64el (not x86): https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=libpmem-dev

libpmem-dev is also not available on Ubuntu Xenial, but that is going away next month so I don't think I will even bother making any releases for that

libpmem-dev is now installed on:

• buster-amd64-build
• focal-amd64-build
• groovy-amd64-build
• sid-amd64-build

libpmem-devel is now installed on:

• fedora32-amd64-build
• fedora33-amd64-build
• opensuse150-amd64-build
• sles150-amd64-build

Thanks dbart!

Also the following builders would need the libpmem-dev:

• kvm-deb-bionic-amd64
• kvm-deb-focal-ppc64le
• kvm-deb-groovy-aarch64
• kvm-deb-groovy-ppc64le

Package libpmem-dev is available on platforms amd64, arm64 and ppc64el.

On Bionic the apt-madison tool when run by autobake-deb.sh sees libpmem-dev in the repositories so it should be installable (from bionic-updates, which is apparently enabled).

We have a build failure on the following platforms due to missing libpmem-dev:

• kvm-deb-bionic-amd64
• amd64-ubuntu-1804-deb-autobake
• (the ARMv8 and POWER platforms that otto mentioned did not start the build yet)

I confirmed that the following are using libpmem:

• kvm-deb-sid-amd64
• kvm-rpm-fedora32-amd64
• kvm-rpm-fedora32-amd64

I also checked that kvm-deb-sid-x86 works, but without the library.

Yes, I'm starting with amd64, moving to other architectures today. Bionic-amd64 is done now.

libpmem-dev/devel is now installed on the following:

• kvm-deb-groovy-aarch64
• kvm-deb-groovy-ppc64le
• kvm-deb-focal-aarch64
• kvm-deb-focal-ppc64le
• kvm-rpm-centos73-amd64
• kvm-rpm-centos74-amd64
• kvm-rpm-centos75-amd64
• kvm-rpm-centos8-amd64
• kvm-rpm-rhel8-amd64
• kvm-zyp-sles123-amd64

libpmem-dev/devel is not available on:

• kvm-deb-bionic-ppc64le
• kvm-deb-bionic-aarch64
• kvm-rpm-centos73-ppc64le
• kvm-rpm-centos73-ppc64
• kvm-rpm-centos74-aarch64
• kvm-deb-stretch-ppc64le
• kvm-deb-stretch-aarch64
• kvm-deb-xenial-aarch64
• kvm-deb-xenial-amd64
• kvm-deb-xenial-ppc64le
• kvm-deb-xenial-x86

We don't have a valid subscription for rhel8-ppc64le, so this builder does not
have libpmem-devel:

• kvm-rpm-rhel8-ppc64le

If I've missed a builder, let me know. Thanks.

The Debian packaging change (setting WITH_PMEM=yes) that was contributed by otto as well as a change to replace WITH_PMEM:BOOL=OFF with WITH_PMEM:STRING=auto have now been pushed to 10.6 after a (mostly) successful bb-10.6-release staging run.

Installed libpmem onto the rhel8-install VM as rhel8 is our bintar builder for 10.6 and so the install VM needs the lib to be able to run tests.

marko probably we need to do the same for ES?

abychko Yes. We'll need libpmem-dev/devel installed on the ES builders.

Assigning to abychko to install libpmem-dev/devel into the Jenkins builders. After which this issue can be closed.

libpmem-dev doesn't exist for debian-9 https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=+libpmem-dev

libpmem-dev is available from bionic and later https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=+libpmem-dev&searchon=names

added libpmem dev package to debian-10-buster, rhel-7, rhel-8, sles-12, sles-15, ubuntu-1804-lts, ubuntu-2004-lts.
testing now