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Date:	Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:14:40 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...64.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 0/9] perf/core improvements and fixes


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 09:18 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > The optimal way, I guess, would be to have some cache file 
> > > > with the results of such feature tests, that would be created 
> > > > and then used till the build fails using its findings, which 
> > > > would trigger a new feature check round, followed by an 
> > > > automatic rebuild. 

I did not write that.

I think making the feature tests parallel would be enough to 
speed it all up - caching brings in a new set of problems. The 
tests are mostly independent and the feature test makefile rules 
could be parallelized like the object file rules.

> autoconf!! ;-)
> 
> /me runs

hey, we build perf much faster than autoconf's 'configure' 
script finishes running ;-)

Thanks,

	Ingo
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