RE: [PULL 00/11] Hexagon bug fixes and performance improvement

[Taylor Simpson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 10:52 AM
> To: Taylor Simpson <tsimpson@quicinc.com>
> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; richard.henderson@linaro.org;
> philmd@linaro.org; peter.maydell@linaro.org; Brian Cain
> <bcain@quicinc.com>; Matheus Bernardino (QUIC)
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> Subject: Re: [PULL 00/11] Hexagon bug fixes and performance improvement
> 
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 at 11:16, Taylor Simpson <tsimpson@quicinc.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > OK.  I wasn't sure if performance improvements would be considered new
> features or not.
> 
> No problem! If there is a performance regression in the upcoming release,
> then fixes will be accepted. For example, if QEMU 7.1 was fast but the
> upcoming QEMU 7.2 release is going to be slow then a performance fix will
> be accepted to avoid a regression in 7.2.
> 
> On the other hand, if it's a fix for something that was already slow in the 
> last
> release (7.1), then it's less likely to be accepted during freeze.

The performance improvements fall into this bucket.

> 
> These are general guidelines and maintainers have a say in what gets
> merged. In this case I looked at the pull request and I wasn't sure if you had
> decided based on these guidelines or not. It helps when it's clear from the
> commit message (or from the commit description in more involved cases)
> that the commit fixes a bug or has some other justification.

I'm the maintainer for the directories touched by these patches (target/hexagon 
and tests/tcg/hexagon), but I'll defer you as a more senior maintainer to 
decide not to merge if it is too risky at this stage.

Taylor