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Re: [PATCH] Fix POWER4/POWER7 optimized strncmp to not read pastdiffering bytes
- From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail dot com>
- To: Ryan Arnold <ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at gmail dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Steven Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:21:01 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix POWER4/POWER7 optimized strncmp to not read pastdiffering bytes
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Ryan Arnold <ryan.arnold@gmail.com> wrote:
> It corrects the behavior exposed in the bug.
>
> I think you should apply it and we'll submit a patch later after we do
> some performance analysis if we find any significant performance
> regression. ?I have someone looking at it right now.
>
> What kind of runway do we have for making 2.14? ?If nothing else we
> can get the 2.14 maintainer to backport a perf fix after the branch is
> tagged.
If glibc is still tracking the Fedora schedule, the Fedora 15 Beta
comes out Tuesday. RC is 5/10, which in my humble opinion would be a
great target for the glibc release. Fedora GA is 5/24.
josh