[llvm-commits] [RFC] Add support of RTM from TSX

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Silva" <silvas at purdue.edu>
> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Cc: "Michael Liao" <michael.liao at intel.com>, llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu, "Arnamoy Bhattacharyya" <arnamoy at ualberta.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:26:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [llvm-commits] [RFC] Add support of RTM from TSX
> 
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > I think that I dropped the ball on this one. IBM recently released
> > a new extension to their ISA to support transactional memory
> > (https://www.power.org/documentation/power-isa-transactional-memory/)
> > -- this is different from, and hopefully will have lower overhead
> > compared to, what we have on the BG/Q -- and I'd like to read the
> > documentation and then revisit this patch.
> 
> Do you think it would be worth adding that to
> <http://llvm.org/docs/CompilerWriterInfo.html#powerpc>
> (docs/CompilerWriterInfo.rst)? Also it seems like some of the other
> PPC links there are dead, do you know where those documents can still
> be found?

I've updated the current links in r174739, thanks for pointing this out! The current list of references certainly needs updating as well, I'll try to have that done in the near future.

 -Hal

> 
> -- Sean Silva
>