linux-kernel - Re: [bloat] Measuring header file bloat effects on kernel build performance: a more than 2x slowdown ...

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 13:21:22 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bloat] Measuring header file bloat effects on kernel build
 performance: a more than 2x slowdown ...

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>      24594a2bfcaa: [PATCH] x86-64 merge
>
>     - Remove some unneeded prefetches.  Just two are enough to kickstart
>       the hardware prefetcher.
>
>   But despite touching prefetches explicitly, this too sloppily left the (now
>   dangling) prefetch.h include file around.

Well, developer removes include, developer risks compile breakage.

> Anway, what i tried to demonstrate with this mail how much *real* slowdown in
> the kernel build our current header file bloat is causing. We could literally
> halve our kernel build times if we fixed this!

News at 11!

Ingo, you're running x86 compile tests nonstop, you can very well make asm-x86
headers the strictest ones to make problem less problematic.

You (x86 merge people), removed header guards from quite a lot of asm-x86/*.h
files breaking gcc "do not open(2) second time" heuristics. It became better
since last I've noticed it, but maybe start with that?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/