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Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 16:27:38 +0500
From:   "Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@....com>
To:     Jason@...c4.com
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Kconfig: default to CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE_O3 for gcc >=
 10

 > GCC 10 appears to have changed -O2 in order to make compilation time
faster when using -flto, seemingly at the expense of performance, in
particular with regards to how the inliner works. Since -O3 these days
shouldn't have the same set of bugs as 10 years ago, this commit
defaults new kernel compiles to -O3 when using gcc >= 10.

It's a strong "no" from me.

1) Aside from rare Gentoo users no one has extensively tested -O3 with
the kernel - even Gentoo defaults to -O2 for kernel compilation

2) -O3 _always_ bloats the code by a large amount which means both
vmlinux/bzImage and modules will become bigger, and slower to load from
the disk

3) -O3 does _not_ necessarily makes the code run faster

4) If GCC10 has removed certain options for the -O2 optimization level
you could just readded them as compilation flags without forcing -O3 by
default on everyone

5) If you still insist on -O3 I guess everyone would be happy if you
just made two KConfig options:

OPTIMIZE_O2 (-O2)
OPTIMIZE_O3_EVEN_MOAR (-O3)

Best regards,
Artem

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