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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Liu, Yong" <yong.liu@intel.com>, reshma.pattan@intel.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] mk: gcc -march support for intel processors code names
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:25:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2578548.bj2dOLfXoi@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57EB30E0.30106@intel.com>

2016-09-28 10:54, Liu, Yong:
> Tested-by: Yong Liu <yong.liu@intel.com>
>             FangFang Wei <fangfangx.wei@intel.com>
[...]
>    Description: Build test on different distributions
>    Command / instruction:
>      Verify build pass on listed distributions.
> 
>      OS                   GCC            Kernel
>      Ubuntu 16.04         5.4.0          4.4.0-36-generic
>      Fedora23             5.3.1          4.2.3-300
>      Fedora24             6.1.1          4.6.4-301
>      Ubuntu 12.04         4.6.3          3.8.0-29
>      Ubuntu 12.04 i686    4.6.3          3.8.0-29
>      Ubuntu 14.04         4.8.4          3.16.0-30
>      Ubuntu 14.04 i686    4.8.4          3.16.0-30
>      Fedora18             4.7.2          3.6.10-4
>      Fedora18 i686        4.7.2          3.6.10-4
>      Fedora20             4.8.2          3.15.6-200
>      Fedora20 i686        4.8.3          3.11.0
>      Suse11SP2            4.5.1          3.0.13-0.2
>      Suse12SP3            4.7.2          3.7.10-1.1
>      RHEL7.0              4.8.2          3.10.0-123
>      RHEL7.2              4.8.5          3.10.0-327
>      CentOS7.0            4.8.5          3.10.0-327
>      FreeBSD10.0          4.8.4          10.0-RELEASE
>      FreeBSD10.3          4.8.5          10.3-RELEASE

I do not understand this test.
This patch is dropping a lot of optimizations with compilers older than 4.9 !

Why not recommend GCC 4.9 and keep the graceful degradation for older versions,
at least for one more year, even if it is not optimal for newer architectures?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-10 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-28  2:54 Liu, Yong
2016-10-10 14:25 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2016-10-10 15:21   ` Pattan, Reshma
2016-10-10 17:09     ` Thomas Monjalon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-15 15:02 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Reshma Pattan
2016-08-22 14:19 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Reshma Pattan
2016-09-02 14:17   ` Pattan, Reshma

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