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Peter Anvin" , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , Arnd Bergmann , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Ard Biesheuvel , Ilias Apalodimas , Josh Poimboeuf , Peter Zijlstra , Miguel Ojeda , Boqun Feng , Gary Guo , =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B6rn_Roy_Baron?= , Benno Lossin , Andreas Hindborg , Alice Ryhl , Trevor Gross , Danilo Krummrich , Daniel Almeida , Tamir Duberstein , Alexandre Courbot , =?UTF-8?Q?Onur_=C3=96zkan?= , Jonathan Corbet , Randy Dunlap Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe References: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-0-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org> Content-Language: en-US, fr-FR From: Florian Fainelli Autocrypt: addr=florian.fainelli@broadcom.com; keydata= xsBNBFPAG8ABCAC3EO02urEwipgbUNJ1r6oI2Vr/+uE389lSEShN2PmL3MVnzhViSAtrYxeT M0Txqn1tOWoIc4QUl6Ggqf5KP6FoRkCrgMMTnUAINsINYXK+3OLe7HjP10h2jDRX4Ajs4Ghs JrZOBru6rH0YrgAhr6O5gG7NE1jhly+EsOa2MpwOiXO4DE/YKZGuVe6Bh87WqmILs9KvnNrQ PcycQnYKTVpqE95d4M824M5cuRB6D1GrYovCsjA9uxo22kPdOoQRAu5gBBn3AdtALFyQj9DQ KQuc39/i/Kt6XLZ/RsBc6qLs+p+JnEuPJngTSfWvzGjpx0nkwCMi4yBb+xk7Hki4kEslABEB AAHNMEZsb3JpYW4gRmFpbmVsbGkgPGZsb3JpYW4uZmFpbmVsbGlAYnJvYWRjb20uY29tPsLB IQQQAQgAywUCZWl41AUJI+Jo+hcKAAG/SMv+fS3xUQWa0NryPuoRGjsA3SAUAAAAAAAWAAFr ZXktdXNhZ2UtbWFza0BwZ3AuY29tjDAUgAAAAAAgAAdwcmVmZXJyZWQtZW1haWwtZW5jb2Rp bmdAcGdwLmNvbXBncG1pbWUICwkIBwMCAQoFF4AAAAAZGGxkYXA6Ly9rZXlzLmJyb2FkY29t Lm5ldAUbAwAAAAMWAgEFHgEAAAAEFQgJChYhBNXZKpfnkVze1+R8aIExtcQpvGagAAoJEIEx tcQpvGagWPEH/2l0DNr9QkTwJUxOoP9wgHfmVhqc0ZlDsBFv91I3BbhGKI5UATbipKNqG13Z TsBrJHcrnCqnTRS+8n9/myOF0ng2A4YT0EJnayzHugXm+hrkO5O9UEPJ8a+0553VqyoFhHqA zjxj8fUu1px5cbb4R9G4UAySqyeLLeqnYLCKb4+GklGSBGsLMYvLmIDNYlkhMdnnzsSUAS61 WJYW6jjnzMwuKJ0ZHv7xZvSHyhIsFRiYiEs44kiYjbUUMcXor/uLEuTIazGrE3MahuGdjpT2 IOjoMiTsbMc0yfhHp6G/2E769oDXMVxCCbMVpA+LUtVIQEA+8Zr6mX0Yk4nDS7OiBlvOwE0E U8AbwQEIAKxr71oqe+0+MYCc7WafWEcpQHFUwvYLcdBoOnmJPxDwDRpvU5LhqSPvk/yJdh9k 4xUDQu3rm1qIW2I9Puk5n/Jz/lZsqGw8T13DKyu8eMcvaA/irm9lX9El27DPHy/0qsxmxVmU pu9y9S+BmaMb2CM9IuyxMWEl9ruWFS2jAWh/R8CrdnL6+zLk60R7XGzmSJqF09vYNlJ6Bdbs MWDXkYWWP5Ub1ZJGNJQ4qT7g8IN0qXxzLQsmz6tbgLMEHYBGx80bBF8AkdThd6SLhreCN7Uh IR/5NXGqotAZao2xlDpJLuOMQtoH9WVNuuxQQZHVd8if+yp6yRJ5DAmIUt5CCPcAEQEAAcLB gQQYAQIBKwUCU8AbwgUbDAAAAMBdIAQZAQgABgUCU8AbwQAKCRCTYAaomC8PVQ0VCACWk3n+ obFABEp5Rg6Qvspi9kWXcwCcfZV41OIYWhXMoc57ssjCand5noZi8bKg0bxw4qsg+9cNgZ3P N/DFWcNKcAT3Z2/4fTnJqdJS//YcEhlr8uGs+ZWFcqAPbteFCM4dGDRruo69IrHfyyQGx16s CcFlrN8vD066RKevFepb/ml7eYEdN5SRALyEdQMKeCSf3mectdoECEqdF/MWpfWIYQ1hEfdm C2Kztm+h3Nkt9ZQLqc3wsPJZmbD9T0c9Rphfypgw/SfTf2/CHoYVkKqwUIzI59itl5Lze+R5 wDByhWHx2Ud2R7SudmT9XK1e0x7W7a5z11Q6vrzuED5nQvkhAAoJEIExtcQpvGagugcIAJd5 EYe6KM6Y6RvI6TvHp+QgbU5dxvjqSiSvam0Ms3QrLidCtantcGT2Wz/2PlbZqkoJxMQc40rb fXa4xQSvJYj0GWpadrDJUvUu3LEsunDCxdWrmbmwGRKqZraV2oG7YEddmDqOe0Xm/NxeSobc MIlnaE6V0U8f5zNHB7Y46yJjjYT/Ds1TJo3pvwevDWPvv6rdBeV07D9s43frUS6xYd1uFxHC 7dZYWJjZmyUf5evr1W1gCgwLXG0PEi9n3qmz1lelQ8lSocmvxBKtMbX/OKhAfuP/iIwnTsww 95A2SaPiQZA51NywV8OFgsN0ITl2PlZ4Tp9hHERDe6nQCsNI/Us= In-Reply-To: <20260908-build-speedup-v1-0-5dc1ac01672d@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DetectorID-Processed: b00c1d49-9d2e-4205-b15f-d015386d3d5e On 9/8/26 13:55, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote: > A typical kernel build consists of a frustratingly large amount of time > spent stuck in single-threaded bottlenecks. > > It turns out that there's a lot we can do about this and doing so > significantly impacts kernel build times. > > This series makes allmodconfig builds up to 36% faster, incremental builds > up to ~70% faster, and noop builds up to ~90% faster. > > Builds are faster across the board on every device I tested. > > Machines used for perf testing: > > * Threadripper - x86, AMD Threadripper 9980X, 64 cores, 128 threads > * EPYC - x86, 2 socket EPYC 9754, 256 cores, 512 threads > * M2 - arm64, 2022 M2 macbook pro, 8 cores, 8 threads > (4 perf, 4 efficiency) My AMD EPYC 9454P server shows an improvement in the order of 13% using the arm64's defconfig and make -j97. Thanks for doing this! -- Florian