On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 04:52:39PM +0000, Marcus Shawcroft wrote:
> On 28 March 2014 14:52, Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana....@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > To my mind on ARM / AArch64 this actually helps anyone using the
> > crypto intrinsics on A53 hardware today and it would be good to get
> > this into 4.9. Again I perceive this as low risk on ARM (AArch32) as
> > this is not a default tuning option for any large software vendors,
> > the folks using this are typically the ones that write the more
> > specialized crypto intrinsics rather than just general purpose code.
> > However this will help with scheduling on what is essentially an
> > in-order core, so would be nice to have.
> >
> > This would definitely need approval from the AArch64 maintainers and
> > the RMs to go in at this stage.
> >
> > If not, we should consider this for 4.9.1
> >
> > regards
> > Ramana
> >
> >>
> >> What do people think?
>
> Its low risk, I think it should go in now.
Ok with me.
Jakub
