Agenda for 2012-05-07

2012-05-03 Thread Michael Hope
I've put the agenda for Monday's call at: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Meetings/2012-05-07 which is: * Review action items from last meeting * Connect sessions: * GDB for Android * GCC performance call - Live! * KVM performance * Renderscript * Android benchmarking

Simpler benchmark comparison

2012-05-03 Thread Michael Hope
I've made a couple of changes to the processing of benchmark results. The server now automatically tabulates the raw results like: http://ex.seabright.co.nz/benchmarks/gcc-linaro-4.7+bzr114974/logs/armv7l-natty-cbuild292-tcpanda02-cortexa9r1/benchmarks.txt diffbench[1] can now take a URL instea

Updates to the BzrTips wiki page

2012-05-03 Thread Michael Hope
I've done some minor updates to the instructions for working with gcc-linaro, bzr, and merge requests at: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/BzrTips The interesting changes are using: * bzr commit --fixes=lp: to link a branch to a bug number * bzr branch --hardlink to cut down

RE: Vectorization paper / kernels.

2012-05-03 Thread Singh, Ravi Kumar (Ravi)
Ramana, Can you suggest the flags used for optimal vectorization on A15 using GNU GCC 4.7. Perhaps specific optimization flags for A15 would also help regards RKSingh From: Ramana Radhakrishnan [ramana.radhakrish...@linaro.org] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2

RE: Vectorization paper / kernels.

2012-05-03 Thread Singh, Ravi Kumar (Ravi)
Ramana, If I use -fvect-cost-model it reverts bacl to novec perf regards RKS From: Ramana Radhakrishnan [ramana.radhakrish...@linaro.org] Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 3:03 PM To: Singh, Ravi Kumar (Ravi) Cc: Ulrich Weigand; linaro-toolchain Subject: Re: Ve

Re: Vectorization paper / kernels.

2012-05-03 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
On 3 May 2012 19:30, Singh, Ravi Kumar (Ravi) wrote: > Actually its not hanging, I tried to run it in isolation. > >          Without Vectorization    With Vectorization >          Time     Value           Time         Value > S1115       67.98       0.065529             1186.44    0.065536 > > >

RE: Vectorization paper / kernels.

2012-05-03 Thread Singh, Ravi Kumar (Ravi)
Actually its not hanging, I tried to run it in isolation. Without VectorizationWith Vectorization Time Value Time Value S1115 67.98 0.065529 1186.440.065536 That means degradation of -1645.28% Regards RKS -Original M

Re: Vectorization paper / kernels.

2012-05-03 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
On 30 April 2012 15:10, Singh, Ravi Kumar (Ravi) wrote: > Ramana, > > My tests S115 is hanging in the vectorized version of TSVC benchmark. Thanks for trying it out - I hadn't really tried it out when I had sent the mail. Uli is planning to look into these in the next few days. Ramana > > Regar