Effect of alignment and peeling on vectorised loops

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Hope
I had a play with the vecotiser to see how peeling, unrolling, and alignment affected the performance of simple memory bound loops. The short story is: * For fixed length loops, don't peel * Performance is the same for 8 byte aligned arrays and up * Performance is very similar for unaliged arra

Re: [Android-virt] plans for QEMU support for KVM on ARM

2011-11-29 Thread Christoffer Dall
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 24 November 2011 23:06, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 24 November 2011 22:02, Christoffer Dall wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Peter Maydell >>> wrote: Pretty high up my todo list was rebasing your kvm patch on to ma

Re: [Android-virt] plans for QEMU support for KVM on ARM

2011-11-29 Thread Peter Maydell
On 24 November 2011 23:06, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 24 November 2011 22:02, Christoffer Dall wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Peter Maydell >> wrote: >>> Pretty high up my todo list was rebasing your kvm patch on to >>> master / qemu-linaro (the two are more or less the same for this

Re: gcc4.6,how to remove werror

2011-11-29 Thread tknv
This issue happend,when I was compiling ARM kernel. I could not get it where -Werror gets overriden in tools/perf. Could you tell me where is it ? On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:53:40PM +, Dave Martin wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 02:09:29AM +0700, tknv wrote: > > Sorry for lacking information.

Re: gcc4.6,how to remove werror

2011-11-29 Thread Dave Martin
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 02:09:29AM +0700, tknv wrote: > Sorry for lacking information. > I would like to explain again. > When I compile kernel with gcc-4.4.3 and remove Werror from Makefile of > top of kernel tree, then no warnings to error. > When using gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubu

Re: launchpad / merge requests and upstreaming patches.

2011-11-29 Thread Richard Sandiford
Ramana Radhakrishnan writes: > On 29 November 2011 12:04, Richard Sandiford > wrote: >> Ramana Radhakrishnan writes: >>> Now that upstream trunk is in stage3 and we have a few patches that >>> won't really make it upstream until stage1 is reopened is it >>> worthwhile having a new status in the

Re: launchpad / merge requests and upstreaming patches.

2011-11-29 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
On 29 November 2011 12:04, Richard Sandiford wrote: > Ramana Radhakrishnan writes: >> Now that upstream trunk is in stage3 and we have a few patches that >> won't really make it upstream until stage1 is reopened is it >> worthwhile having a new status in the merge requests that moves it >> into a

Re: launchpad / merge requests and upstreaming patches.

2011-11-29 Thread Richard Sandiford
Ramana Radhakrishnan writes: > Now that upstream trunk is in stage3 and we have a few patches that > won't really make it upstream until stage1 is reopened is it > worthwhile having a new status in the merge requests that moves it > into a to_upstream status . The other option is to have a common

launchpad / merge requests and upstreaming patches.

2011-11-29 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
Hi, Now that upstream trunk is in stage3 and we have a few patches that won't really make it upstream until stage1 is reopened is it worthwhile having a new status in the merge requests that moves it into a to_upstream status . The other option is to have a common spreadsheet that we keep updatin