[LLVMdev] [RFC] TileGX, a new backend for Tilera's many core processor

Bill Wendling wendling at apple.com
Fri Mar 8 11:13:04 PST 2013


On Mar 8, 2013, at 2:31 AM, Jiong Wang <jiwang at tilera.com> wrote:

> On 03/08/2013 04:48 AM, Dmitri Gribenko wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Jiong Wang <jiwang at tilera.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Updated the patches for TILE-Gx backend:
>>> 
>>> 1. added initial regression tests for tilegx codegen.
>>> 2. added initial regression tests for MC Layer.
>>> 3. fixed those commenting style issues.
>>> 
>>> please review, thanks.
>> This is a huge patch, and reviewing it in tar.gz is hard.  To
>> facilitate review process, you can upload this to phabricator.
> 
>  OK, I am requesting for a phabricator account.
> 
>  one other things is,  should I split the patch into several parts? like
> 
>  [PATCH 1/10]
>  [PATCH 2/10]
>   ...
> 
>  because clang patch & test-suite patch is relatively small, but llvm patch is nearly 10K line, still hard to review.
> 
>  if it is, will one patch for one file OK?
> 
>  What's the patch policy in llvm community ?
> 
Hi Jiong,

The LLVM community prefers small, self-contained patches. Please split up your patches into small chunks that can be easily reviewed. Keep in mind that the compiler needs to work after each pass goes in. :-)

-bw





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