From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28693 invoked by alias); 12 May 2006 21:37:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 28684 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2006 21:37:05 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU (HELO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu) (18.7.7.80) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 May 2006 21:37:03 +0000 Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k4CLafFF014275; Fri, 12 May 2006 17:36:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (CONTENTS-VNDER-PRESSVRE.MIT.EDU [18.7.16.67]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as nathanw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.6/8.12.4) with ESMTP id k4CLaYSe006195 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 12 May 2006 17:36:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from nathanw@localhost) by contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id k4CLaYoU007052; Fri, 12 May 2006 17:36:34 -0400 (EDT) To: Mark Kettenis Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Modernize NetBSD/powerpc support in GDB References: <200605021944.k42JiW6a005600@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200605122048.k4CKmqjQ020427@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: "Nathan J. Williams" Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 21:55:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <200605122048.k4CKmqjQ020427@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00266.txt.bz2 Mark Kettenis writes: > My bet is still that it is a cache flushing issue, especially since > the 440, which uses different code to flush the cache, is so much > better. I should also note that with a moderately bogus hack in the macppc code that fixes the iflush problem, I got macppc down to 279 failures, very repeatably. All of the failures that macppc had that the 440 didn't have were AltiVec-related. - Nathan