From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from bu3sch.de ([62.75.166.246]:37717 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759974AbZFKVFw (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:05:52 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: Re: compat-wireless: ridiculous build speed Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:05:33 +0200 Cc: Jan Kiszka , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <4A30CE70.4050605@web.de> <43e72e890906111148w1c242bd1qf97cb668a98f883e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43e72e890906111148w1c242bd1qf97cb668a98f883e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <200906112305.33675.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 11 June 2009 20:48:13 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > Hi, > > > > while watching compat-wireless-2009-06-11 doing baby-steps building all > > its modules, I wonder what slows this down so horribly. No other > > external module build package I know is that slow (I would say *at > > least* one order of magnitude slower than normal). Is this really required? > > > > [ Hurray, it's finished! ] > > I think the many depmod -ae are the culprit. This is in place to > account for all the crap of madwifi which may be present or older > drivers which have been renamed. > > This could be improved. Patches are welcomed. > > Ps. Try building with make -j 2, etc. -j does not help. It will hardly build in parallel then. There's something that serializes most of it (implicitly). -- Greetings, Michael.