[PATCH] Support dl-tunables.list in subdirectories

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Thu May 25 12:35:00 GMT 2017


On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar
<siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 May 2017 01:11 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> We can put processor specific tunables in dl-tunables.list under
>> sysdeps instead of in elf/dl-tunables.list.
>>
>> Any comments?
>
> That makes sense.  However, please avoid putting processor/arch

I will check in my patch.

> information in the tunable names.  That is, instead of glibc.x86_tune or
> something like that, stick to glibc.tune[1].  That way if the tunable is
> deemed to be applicable to other architectures in future, then we can
> simply move it to the generic list.

Sure, we can discuss when I submit my patch.

Thanks.

> Siddhesh
>
> [1] Any processor/hardware feature tuning should go into the glibc.tune
> namespace. I see you're looking to implement IFUNC overrides, so the
> tunable I've proposed for that is glibc.tune.mcpu where the values
> should map to those in gcc.



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H.J.



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