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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com>,
	Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AArch64: Add hp-timing.h
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 10:55:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s2rk9z2.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210630084643.GE14854@arm.com> (Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha's message of "Wed, 30 Jun 2021 09:46:44 +0100")

* Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha:

> The 06/28/2021 11:11, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
>> Add hp-timing.h using the cntcvt_el0 counter. Return timing in nanoseconds
>> so it is fully compatible with generic hp-timing. Don't set HP_TIMING_INLINE
>> in the dynamic linker since very old kernels may not handle cntcvt correctly.
>
> can you please add a comment here that this
> is only used in internal benchmarks and not
> in installed glibc binaries. with that it's
> ok to commit.

This commit would not be entirely accurate.  We install and ship the
benchtests, so they need to use a stable ISA (and kernel ABI).

If the benchtests are like the testsuite and are not intended to be
installed and distributed, we probably need to make downstream changes.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-30  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-28 10:11 Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 10:20 ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-28 10:53   ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 11:06     ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-28 11:35       ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 11:39         ` Florian Weimer
2021-06-28 11:49       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-06-28 11:55         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-28 12:10         ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 13:15           ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-28 14:24           ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-28 14:46             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-06-28 19:16               ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-06-30  8:46 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-06-30  8:55   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-06-30  9:33     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-07-01 10:21     ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-07-01 13:48       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2021-07-01 15:33         ` Wilco Dijkstra
2021-07-06 11:33       ` Florian Weimer

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