[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-ci] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix avx code error on MinGW

[Lincoln Lavoie]

Hi All,

The jobs for Windows compile are running, so it may just be the patch
hasn't caught up in the queue.

Cheers,
Lincoln

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:43 AM David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:36 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/4/2021 10:41 AM, Zhang, Qi Z wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2021 7:08 AM
> > >> To: Rong, Leyi <leyi.rong at intel.com>
> > >> Cc: david.marchand at redhat.com; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>;
> Yigit,
> > >> Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; thomas at monjalon.net; Richardson,
> Bruce
> > >> <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; talshn at nvidia.com; Kadam, Pallavi
> > >> <pallavi.kadam at intel.com>; Menon, Ranjit <ranjit.menon at intel.com>;
> Xing,
> > >> Beilei <beilei.xing at intel.com>; aconole at redhat.com; dev at dpdk.org;
> > >> ci at dpdk.org
> > >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: fix avx code error on
> MinGW
> > >>
> > >> On Tue,  2 Feb 2021 22:32:58 +0800, Leyi Rong wrote:
> > >>> Adds extra cflags '-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables'
> > >>> to avoid the MinGW build error:
> > >>>     Error: invalid register for .seh_savexmm
> > >>>
> > >>> Fixes: 5c38c33f7880 ("net/i40e: disable AVX512 with MinGW")
> > >>>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Leyi Rong <leyi.rong at intel.com>
> > >>
> > >> Tested-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
> > >>
> > >> Re: -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables, when cross-compiling from Linux,
> I
> > >> observe bit-to-bit identical i40e_rxtx_vec_avx512.c.obj. My guess it
> that this
> > >> option somehow affects GCC inlining heuristics. Similar issue existed
> in
> > >> librte_acl (at least a year ago win GCC 6, I believe), where GCC
> generated
> > >> incorrect code unless certain functions had been inlined (caught by
> test app).
> > >> No an AVX expert, just my 2c.
> > >
> > > Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Thomas, David,
> >
> > Do you prefer to get this directly to the main repo, since it is fixing
> the
> > windows build?
>
> I have no issue with the main branch for mingw.
> The windows builds at UNH seem unavailable, so we can wait for the
> next-net merge.
>
>
> --
> David Marchand
>
>

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