On Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:32:02 PM CET Thiago Macieira wrote: > Hello > > Commit c8c5ff19de1c34a99b8315e59015d115957b3584[1] was allowed to pass the > CI despite failing tests in a non-blacklisted test. It's fixed in [2] which > is integrating now. > > The reason this was allowed is because none of the machines in the CI are > testing the AVX2 codepaths in qdrawhelper_avx2.cpp. So this commit is to ask > that we add at least one machine (preferably Linux) that has that > capability. > > AVX2 along with FMA was introduced with the Haswell architecture[3] (fourth > generation Intel Core, according to the marketing name), first launched in > late 2013. That makes the architecture over 5 years old and it means a lot > of our users have the feature. We ought to test it and even benchmark if we > can. > > [1] https://codereview.qt-project.org/249410 > [2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/249572 > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_(microarchitecture)
I have created: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-2541 feel free to amend it. Cheers, Jędrek _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
