Re: Effect of SMS register move scheduling

2011-08-26 Thread Richard Sandiford
Richard Sandiford writes: > Richard Sandiford writes: >> Revital Eres writes: >>> btw, do you also have numbers of how much SMS (hopefully) improves >>> performance on top of the vectorized code? >> >> OK, here's a comparison of: >> >> -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp -mvectoriz

[ACTIVITY] 21th - 26th August

2011-08-26 Thread Asa Sandahl
* Investigated the errors in the automotive test and concluded that they are CRC-errors, but not depending on the test case result (non intrusive crc check). We decided these errors need to be cleared out once and for all. Michael and Ramana helping out with continued investigation. * EEMBC run on

[Activity] Week ending 2011-08-26

2011-08-26 Thread Ramana Radhakrishnan
==GCC== ===Progress=== * Looked at the vectorize_with_neon_quad failure again and decided that I had to handle another case but not convinced that the extra stall we'd get in this case was worth it. In any case it would have been a workaround but Richard Sandiford fixed this by getting df to do t

[ACTIVITY] Weekly status

2011-08-26 Thread Richard Sandiford
== This week == * Wrote some patches to make SMS schedule register moves. They made a significant difference to some libav loops. I'm running a regression test on pwoerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0 and will submit upstream next week if all goes OK. * Looked at why mjpegenc was so much worse with SMS.

[ACTIVITY] report week 34

2011-08-26 Thread Peter Maydell
RAG: Red: Amber: OMAP3 patch upstreaming is (still) slower progress than hoped Green: Current Milestones: || || Planned|| Estimate || Actual || ||qemu-linaro 2011-09 || 2011-09-15 || 2011-09-15 |||| Historical Milestones: ||qemu-linaro 2011-04