On 28 March 2014 14:52, Ramana Radhakrishnan <ramana....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> To my mind on ARM / AArch64 this actually helps anyone using the > crypto intrinsics on A53 hardware today and it would be good to get > this into 4.9. Again I perceive this as low risk on ARM (AArch32) as > this is not a default tuning option for any large software vendors, > the folks using this are typically the ones that write the more > specialized crypto intrinsics rather than just general purpose code. > However this will help with scheduling on what is essentially an > in-order core, so would be nice to have. > > This would definitely need approval from the AArch64 maintainers and > the RMs to go in at this stage. > > If not, we should consider this for 4.9.1 > > regards > Ramana > >> >> What do people think? Its low risk, I think it should go in now. /Marcus
