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Re: [PATCH 4/6] x86: use template for AVX/AVX512 floating point comparison insns
On 06.03.2020 15:44, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 12:13 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>
>> These all follow an almost common pattern, again with the exception of
>> being commutative, which can be easily taken care of.
>>
>> Note that, as an intended side effect (and in fact one of the reason to
>> introduce templates), AVX long-form pseudo-ops get introduced alongside
>> the already existing AVX512 ones.
>
> What did you mean by that?
That from the current set of pseudos not all are supported in the
AVX case. IIRC the set got expanded (also covering the AVX variants)
when AVX512 was added to the SDM.
> We need testcases to show what were missing
> before and they are added now.
Sigh - I can do so of course, but it's tedious and pretty pointless
with the templated templates now guaranteeing consistency.
Jan