On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 4:32 AM, Segher Boessenkool
<seg...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> We transform floating point divide instructions to a faster series of
> simple instructions, "swdiv".  Currently we do not do that until the
> first splitter pass, which is much too late for most optimisations
> that can happen on those new instructions, e.g. the constant loads
> are not CSEd inside an unrolled loop.  This patch changes things so
> those divide instructions are expanded during expand already.
>
> Bootstrapped and tested on powerpc64-linux; Bill has run SPEC on it,
> and if anything it shows a slight improvement.
>
> Is this okay for trunk?

Okay.

But commenting on the ChangeLog entry is half the fun!

- David

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