glibc 2.23 --- Hard freeze starting

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 09:45:29AM -0600, Steven Munroe wrote:
> Because this is the only thing that is prevention powerpc from enabling
> TLE. And it is important to my platform.
> 
> So Roland may this is just nice to have but I think it is a blocker.
> 
> If the tunables framework is just a nice to have then it should not be a
> prerequisite for enable TLE for power.
> 
> And should not block the enable of TLE for powerpc on power8 and using
> some other means to enable/disable.

I don't have the full context here, but I believe you could limit the
scope of TLE implementation of power to what is being done in x86,
i.e. only implement enabling/disabling of TLE at glibc configure and
build time.

We willll need consensus on what the final user interface for tunables
should look like and it is not reasonable to block on that at this
stage.  The only patch I proposed as a blocker was the first patch to
ensure that we have the scaffolding in place early; that way we can
focus on getting consensus on the user interface after 2.23 release.

Siddhesh