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From: Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim@codesourcery.com>
To: Steve Ellcey <sellcey@mips.com>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>,
	<libc-ports@sourceware.org>,	<pinskia@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch, mips] More mips memcpy improvements
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0959F771-16A8-4D4B-9372-907A07BB46B1@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354128832.22862.223.camel@ubuntu-sellcey>

On 29/11/2012, at 7:53 AM, Steve Ellcey wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 09:46 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> 
...
>> I will note that I'm not comfortable pushing a patch like this so
>> close to the 2.17 freeze.
>> 
>> My preference would be that 2.17 goes out the door, then once the
>> freeze is over we put this patch into trunk and then everyone can test
>> it and ensure that what we get is continual incremental improvement.

I second this.

>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos.
> 
...
>   I haven't run the glibc testsuite
> with this memcpy, I used a combination of memcpy specific tests I wrote
> plus GCC testing for verification.  I will run the glibc testsuite
> today, it hasn't been clean in the past for me (before I made any
> changes) and I don't expect it to be so now but I will report on my
> results when I have them.

You don't need to have clean test results; as long as your patch doesn't cause any new failures, it is fine.  [Of course, this is assuming that the testsuite is functional, i.e., >80% tests PASS.]

--
Maxim Kuvyrkov
CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics


  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 20:37 Steve Ellcey 
2012-11-28  7:43 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2012-11-28 14:46   ` Carlos O'Donell
2012-11-28 18:54     ` Steve Ellcey
2012-11-28 18:59       ` Maxim Kuvyrkov [this message]
2012-11-28 19:03       ` Carlos O'Donell

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