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Date:	Tue, 1 Oct 2013 09:48:42 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf autodep: Remove strlcpy feature check, add __weak
 strlcpy implementation

Em Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 02:04:55PM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> So there's more speedups possible I think, for example we could construct 
> an 'optimistic' testcase that is generated live and includes a 
> concatenation of all the testcases.
> 
> If the build of that file succeeds then we have a really efficient 
> fast-path both in the first-build and in the repeat-build case.
> 
> If that build fails then we do the more finegrained feature check.
> 
> Thoughts?

Lets get what you have merged and continue from there ;-)
 
- Arnaldo
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