From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: reuse vmlinux.o in vmlinux_link
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 15:18:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202005211515.481BD90@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200521202716.193316-1-samitolvanen@google.com>
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 01:27:16PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Instead of linking all compilation units again each time vmlinux_link is
> called, reuse vmlinux.o from modpost_link.
>
> With x86_64 allyesconfig, vmlinux_link is called three times and reusing
> vmlinux.o reduces the build time ~38 seconds on my system (59% reduction
> in the time spent in vmlinux_link).
BTW, I'll see this most in that it knocks about 6% off my "I changed
1 .c file and now I'm rebuilding" workflow time (which is obviously
dominated by linking), from 25 seconds to 23.5 seconds. And since most
of those seconds are spent staring at the build, it feels like a lot
more. ;)
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-21 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-21 20:27 [PATCH] kbuild: reuse vmlinux.o in vmlinux_link Sami Tolvanen
2020-05-21 22:08 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-22 18:16 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-05-21 22:18 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-05-22 17:41 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-05-22 17:44 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-05-23 10:06 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-05-23 15:12 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-05-23 16:53 ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-05-25 6:13 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-15 21:47 ` Sami Tolvanen
2020-06-16 3:22 ` Masahiro Yamada
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