On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 01:01:23 GMT, Paul Sandoz <psan...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi @PaulSandoz ,
>> 
>> I think it would be better to integrate it [1] in this MR.
>> 
>> I have tested this MR on our AVX512 machines and it still crashes.
>> Also, for the sake of maintenance, it seems NOT a good idea to push a 
>> problematic commit into the jdk main-line repo.
>> 
>> As for the review process, I don't think it's a problem since the fix [1] is 
>> clear and small enough.
>> 
>> What do you think?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://github.com/openjdk/panama-vector/commit/1af35c357066743935bd3f48ce3610a41761f89a
>
> @DamonFool I appreciate your efforts on this but i want to hold back on that 
> issue and follow up very quickly after
> integration of this PR. This change has been through an extremely long and 
> arduous review process, and i want to stick
> to what was reviewed and not ask reviewers to go through further cycles on 
> what overall is a very large change.
> Unfortunately this change is in a holding pattern waiting for the CSR to be 
> approved thereby increasing the window
> where we might find further issues (that if we had already integrated may 
> have been dealt with separately perhaps in a
> less timely fashion with respect to that integration). Unless an issue is 
> extremely severe I think we should queue them
> up in `panama-vector/vectorIntrinsics` (there is at least one more for ARM 
> SVE that is queued up). Since the issue you
> describe effects one instruction, for one type, on AVX512, its impact is 
> limited and will be mitigated by a quick
> follow up.

Okay.
I can understand it.

Vector API is very valuable to us.
Hope the follow-ups can be integrated as soon as possible.
And thank you all for your great work.

Best regards,
Jie

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/367

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