Re: freeze for the upcoming glibc 2.38 release

[Noah Goldstein <goldstein.w.n@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 4:35 PM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > >   We still have two "desirables" on the wiki page,
> > >   * "Add clone3 support for multiple architectures" - can we wrap this up
> > >     safely next week?
> > >     https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=16730
> > >   * "Flip defaults for some security-relevant build configuration flags"
> > >     https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=21908
> > >     The series consists of 4 patches. 2 (stack-protector-strong), 3
> > >     (bind-now) and 4 (disable-crypt) should be uncontroversial.
> > >     ## The list thread on 1 (autoconf-2.71) ended without a clear
> > >        conclusion. What's the status here? ##
> > >
> > >   Anything else?
> >
> > I would like to make sure any necessary follow ups for tuning the
> > `non_temporal_threshold` on X86 machines gets into 2.38.
>
> Let's be careful and reluctant with pure performance tuning.
>
> Bug fixes are of course fine (and yes I know the boundary is somewhat
> ill-defined).

I think this one is more in the former category. At the very least want
to add a bound that ensure new number is never less than older value
(to avoid any blatant regressions). But hoping to hear from Sajan before
then to see if we can get a proper fix in.

>
> --
> Andreas K. Hüttel
> dilfridge@gentoo.org
> Gentoo Linux developer
> (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)