On 2011-08-26 00:16, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > Hi, > > 2011/8/25 Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de>: >> Hi! >> >> I am putting upstream author Jens Axboe on CC. > > Thanks! > >> >> Am Donnerstag, 25. August 2011 schrieb Nobuhiro Iwamatsu: >>> Hi, >> [...] >>> >>> 2011/8/3 Martin Steigerwald <m...@teamix.de>: >>>> Hello Nobuhiro, Paul, hello Debian SuperH maintainers, hello Jens, >>>> >>>> I am seeking information on the current status regarding >>>> >>>> Please support sh4 >>>> http://bugs.debian.org/561891 >>>> >>>> and eventually help in resolving it if it has not already been >>>> resolved. >>>> >>>> When I am reading >>>> >>>> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=fio&suite=unstabl >>>> e >>>> >>>> correctly, then fio 1.50-1 has been build 167d before on buildd >>>> kongou. >>>> >>>> So is this issue resolved? >>>> >>>> If not, please offer help. There is a partial patch mentioned earlier >>>> in the bug report. >>> >>> By this method, we cannot support both SH4 and SH4A. When we build >>> with machine of SH4A, a binary to work only in SH4A is built. >>> Because Debian SH team are supporting sh4 and sh4a in one binary, this >>> becomes the problem. >>> And this is a problem peculiar to Debian. It will not become the >>> problem in other distribution. (e.g., Gentoo) >>> It is necessary to check whether you do not do it whether we support >>> synco when we support both CPU's when we execute *_barrier. >>> I think that this has a big overhead. >>> >>> I attached quick hack patch. >> >> Jens, what do you think about such a patch? Please advice. >> >> Nobuhiro, where do you think comes the big overhead from? In your patch >> you check once at beginning for sinco capability. Do you refer to the if >> statement you added in arch/arch-sh.h? >> > > I thought that an overhead was bigger than the patch which you wrote as for > my performing a check of synco every time when a program called memory > barrier. > Actually, the patch which you wrote is enough.
Then everybody's happy, the patch is in and the packages can be updated :-) -- Jens Axboe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org