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From: Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
To: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>,
	Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>,
	Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <jerinj@marvell.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, nd <nd@arm.com>,
	Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: RE: [EXT] Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/arm: remove CASP constraints for GCC
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:32:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PH0PR18MB4086F1B2F66B2CB0C9AB9477DE5A9@PH0PR18MB4086.namprd18.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJFAV8x70fGU0QJzrRk48zqoxu8KKLXRi08g8UcjwVEi36-wLQ@mail.gmail.com>

>On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 8:15 AM Ruifeng Wang
><Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com> wrote:
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: pbhagavatula@marvell.com <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
>> > Sent: Friday, November 5, 2021 4:57 PM
>> > To: Ruifeng Wang <Ruifeng.Wang@arm.com>;
>david.marchand@redhat.com;
>> > jerinj@marvell.com
>> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
>> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] eal/arm: remove CASP constraints
>for GCC
>> >
>> > From: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
>> >
>> > GCC now assigns even register pairs for CASP, the fix has also been
>> > backported to all stable releases of older GCC versions.
>> > Removing the manual register allocation allows GCC to inline the
>functions
>> > and pick optimal registers for performing CASP.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Pavan Nikhilesh <pbhagavatula@marvell.com>
>> Acked-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang@arm.com>
>
>Patch lgtm but it is late for merging in 21.11.
>
>It is in EAL, and is an optimisation of the 128 bits cas operation on ARM.
>This is used by the stack library and mempool.
>There might be other impacts I did not think of.
>
>
>Do you have links to bugs or commits for the mentionned fix on gcc
>side?

Here is the gcc git commit that fixes this.

https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=563cc649beaf11d707c422e5f4e9e5cdacb818c3

>This will help when we get reports from users with compilers without
>the fix.
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>David Marchand


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-20 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-04 10:03 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] " pbhagavatula
2021-10-18  6:39 ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-11-05  8:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " pbhagavatula
2021-11-08  7:15   ` Ruifeng Wang
2021-11-16 14:56     ` David Marchand
2022-01-20 15:32       ` Pavan Nikhilesh Bhagavatula [this message]
2022-02-11  7:53       ` David Marchand

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