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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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.

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.

Thanks,
Stefan