From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, Linux Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] x86: add kconfig options for newer 64-bit processors
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 11:18:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131020091813.GA4972@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <526325C9.7030705@gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 08:37:29PM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> This patch adds options to specifically optimize for a number of newer
> 64-bit microarchitectures; specifically, Intel's Nehalem, Westmere,
> Ivy Bridge, and Sandy Bridge, and AMD's Family 10h, Bobcat, Jaguar,
> Bulldozer, Piledriver, and Steamroller. This serves primarily as an
> attempt to render this particular sub-menu up-to-date with respect to
> the options offered by current versions of GCC.
I'm sorry but did I miss anything from the last time where we determined
that those don't bring any sensible speedup and don't mean whit on
distros?
Thanks.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-20 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-20 0:37 [PATCHv2] x86: add kconfig options for newer 64-bit processors Austin S Hemmelgarn
2013-10-20 8:17 ` Richard Weinberger
2013-10-20 9:18 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-10-20 23:58 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2013-10-21 10:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-21 11:44 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2013-10-21 13:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-21 14:20 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2013-10-22 8:23 ` Borislav Petkov
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