Comment 3 for bug 1414819

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1414819] Re: Enable glibc to take advantage of HTM on Ubuntu 15.04

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 03:46:54PM -0000, Breno Leitão wrote:
> So, I understand that we have two options here:

> A) If 2.21 makes Ubuntu 15.04, then we are good in terms of patch, we
> just need to enable lock elision in gcc build (--enable-lock-
> elision=yes).

> These are the patch that enable HTM in glibc:
> * 1d45200a803939be3316b7ddf442906d544e9d43
> * 4b45943a6f62cfc239e79ad8902f5c7f71fd13ec
> * 56cf2763819d2f721c98f2b8bcc04a3c673837d3)

> B) If 2.21 doesn't make Ubuntu 15.04, then we (IBM) should backport these
> patch for 2.19 (instead of 2.20), and also enable lock elision in gcc
> build.

> Is it correct?

Yes, I think that's correct.