On 23 July 2018 at 23:00, Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> wrote: > This allows the default (and maximum) vector length to be set > from the command-line. Which is extraordinarily helpful in > debuging problems depending on vector length without having to > bake knowledge of PR_SET_SVE_VL into every guest binary. > > Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> > --- > > The argument for inclding this in 3.0 is that there appear to be > several groups experimenting with SVE and using fixed vector lengths. > While this is oddly against the design of SVE, it's probably going > to keep happening. Plus, the wildly useful debugging aspect.
...on the other hand, it's a new feature and we're about to cut rc2 tomorrow. I'd prefer to leave this til after 3.0 releases. thanks -- PMM
