Intel microcode update and glibc HLE

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 27 September 2014 10:40, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> It turns out to be more than just a configure flag.
>
> Andi's recent rwlock changes use TSX unconditionally.

I would reckon that it's wrong to do so. Not using
--enable-lock-elision should disable all elision code.

> I've raised this issue with Andi to see if we can put it all under the
> same configure flag.
>
> Similarly for ppc64 and s390 I think I'll make the flag do this:
>
> --enable-lock-elision=yes (enable for all machines)
> --enable-lock-elisoin=x86_64,ppc64,s390x (enable for these machines)

Why do you need this?  Wouldn't it be sufficient to do this in
distribution spec files?

Siddhesh
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