From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752726AbaCEFJI (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2014 00:09:08 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46090 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751275AbaCEFJH (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2014 00:09:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:09:27 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Jon Ringle Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add option to build with -O3 Message-ID: <20140305050927.GA8534@kroah.com> References: <1393977709-9809-1-git-send-email-jringle@gridpoint.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1393977709-9809-1-git-send-email-jringle@gridpoint.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 07:01:49PM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote: > +config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SPEED > + bool "Optimze for speed (-O3)" > + help > + Enabling this option will pass "-O3" to gcc > + resulting in a larger kernel (but possibly faster) Are you sure about that? Have you measured it?