Re: [PATCH, rs6000] Correctly set rs6000_always_hint for ppc476

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Bergner
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 19:13 -0500, David Edelsohn wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Peter Bergner wrote: > > The 476 cpu has dynamic branch prediction, so we don't want to always > > use static branch prediction hints. Is the following patch ok assuming > > my currently running bootstrap/

Re: [PATCH, rs6000] Correctly set rs6000_always_hint for ppc476

2012-01-26 Thread David Edelsohn
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Peter Bergner wrote: > The 476 cpu has dynamic branch prediction, so we don't want to always > use static branch prediction hints.  Is the following patch ok assuming > my currently running bootstrap/regtesting doesn't uncover any regressions? > > Is this appropria

[PATCH, rs6000] Correctly set rs6000_always_hint for ppc476

2012-01-26 Thread Peter Bergner
The 476 cpu has dynamic branch prediction, so we don't want to always use static branch prediction hints. Is the following patch ok assuming my currently running bootstrap/regtesting doesn't uncover any regressions? Is this appropriate for the 4.6 and 4.5 branches as well? Peter * conf