Hi All,
This is a brain dump of what I learned about running LAVA today.
Dave will probably find a place for this in the Validation wiki, but
I'll pass it round in the meantime.
Hope it helps
Andrew
Hi,
* libunwind
* posted small bug fixes
* noticed the unwinding on Android is broken somehow
(need to track down the commit that broke it)
* linaro android
* repo sync fails due invalid bionic commit id (#885792)
* tried to remotely attend the Connect
* +1 for having live streams of the plenaries
(http://video.ubuntu.com/live/)
* -1 for pointing us to the wrong grand sierra irc channels
(http://uds.ubuntu.com/participate/remote)
* icecast streams worked most of the time
(* public holiday on tuesday)
Regards
Ken
=== 64 bit atomics
* I got the race in membase down to a futex issue, and asking dmart
pointed me at a kernel bug that
affects recent kernels where a fix had gone in about a month ago.
That was a nasty one!
* I've still got a few bugs left; most are turning out to be timing
races in the test code (e.g. one that
times out after 2seconds but the code takes around 1.7 seconds ish -
but if something else gets
in trips over the line, and another one where it did a recv_from on a
socket but only got
the start of a message, presumably because the sender had used
multiple sends). It's tricky going
because the tests are a combination of most scripting languages (perl,
python, ruby with a splash of Erlang).
I've so far found no bugs in the atomic code.
* I looked at apr and SDL-1.3; both of which use atomics; but end up
not using 64bit atomics;
the tendency is for them to ensure they can do atomics on long and on
a void*; both of which
for us are 32bit.
=== String routines
* I've got the Newlib A15 optimised memcpy running in a test harness
at the moment for
comparison.
=== Listening to connect
* I listened in to a few connect sessions each day; the 1st day or
so was 3/4 lost on
audio systems that didn't work (I'm especially annoyed at not being
able to hear the QEMU for A15/KVM session
and toolchain support for kernel). The Rypple session was rather lost
through the lack of any screen share
or slides.
Hello all,
I've been playing around with linaro and have it working on my
Pandaboard locally. I have a couple of questions about the linaro
environment; if this is the wrong forum, I'm happy to take it elsewhere.
I see that Linaro makes monthly releases of the hwpacks and images.
How are the packages/binaries in those images created? Are they
cross-compiled, or compiled natively on the target platform? If they
are cross-compiled, how is the environment created?
The reason I ask is that we've been looking at cross-compiling some
packages ourselves, and have been running into issues. So we were
wondering what toolchain the linaro community uses.
Thanks in advance,
--
Chris Lalancette
Hello all,
I've been playing around with linaro and have it working on my
Pandaboard locally. I have a couple of questions about the linaro
environment; if this is the wrong forum, I'm happy to take it elsewhere.
I see that Linaro makes monthly releases of the hwpacks and images.
How are the packages/binaries in those images created? Are they
cross-compiled, or compiled natively on the target platform? If they
are cross-compiled, how is the environment created?
The reason I ask is that we've been looking at cross-compiling some
packages ourselves, and have been running into issues. So we were
wondering what toolchain the linaro community uses.
Thanks in advance,
--
Chris Lalancette
Hi,
- Finished rewriting SLP analysis to support not only unary and binary
operations. Committed upstream.
- Implemented cond_expr support in SLP (for libav weight_h264_pixels).
Testing it now.
- Vectorizer maintenance (test/bug fixes, patch reviews).
Ira
Testing an initial version of the implementation which estimates
register pressure in SMS on libav micro benchmarks.
I see 20% improvements in mjpegenc microbench and 11% on aacsbr-2 with
SMS. However swscale-rgb24ToY_c
still have spills in the final code although it requires maximum 64
VFP_REGS registers out of the available 64 registers so I'm trying to
understand the reason for the spill.
==Progress===
* Off for one day during the week for Diwali.
* Connect preparation - Wrote down areas to look at during connect and
tried to plan what we
want to look at during connect.
* Looked at some of the cases with vcond<float> with Ira and helped
frame blueprint.
* Investigated one of the big performance regressions in the popular
embedded benchmark
and looked at why it wasn't being vectorized only to realize that it
couldn't be. Thanks
Ira. Still don't know why ARM state is 22% faster than Thumb2 state.
* Looked at the issue with fPIC where GCSE appears to remove a label
for sometime
but not much progress.
=== Plans ===
* Connect ! next week and then vacation.
Absences.
* 26 Oct - Diwali
* 31st Oct - 4th Nov - Linaro Summit Orlando - Travel booked -
* 08 Nov - 11 Nov - Vacation booked
* Dec 19 - 31st Dec - Vacation booked
