[PATCH] Fix POWER4/POWER7 optimized strncmp to not read past differing bytes

Josh Boyer jwboyer@gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 01:31:00 GMT 2011


On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Ryan Arnold <ryan.arnold@gmail.com> wrote:
> It corrects the behavior exposed in the bug.
>
> I think you should apply it and we'll submit a patch later after we do
> some performance analysis if we find any significant performance
> regression.  I have someone looking at it right now.
>
> What kind of runway do we have for making 2.14?  If nothing else we
> can get the 2.14 maintainer to backport a perf fix after the branch is
> tagged.

If glibc is still tracking the Fedora schedule, the Fedora 15 Beta
comes out Tuesday.  RC is 5/10, which in my humble opinion would be a
great target for the glibc release.  Fedora GA is 5/24.

josh



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