Bug#797370: libllvm3.8: Please include performance oriented scheduler patch for AMDGPU target of LLVM

[Alex Fahrutdinov]

Package: libllvm3.8
Version: 3.8~svn245286-1
Severity: wishlist

GPU hacker called Alex Davy wrote a patch for LLVM that is significaly improve
performance of RadeonSI driver.
Could you include this to libllvm package?
The GIT repository with LLVM branch is avaliable here:
https://github.com/axeldavy/llvm
The patch for AMDGPU scheduler is avaliable here:
https://github.com/axeldavy/llvm/commit/5005a869e01debaf3f78df804ab4fe67325ad88a
There are some tests conform performance improvements:
http://www.linuxsystems.it/2015/08/radeonsi-with-si-scheduler-humiliates-
catalyst-in-all-tests/



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