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SubjectRe: [performance problem] CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE: Increased kernel build times
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On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:45 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Steve,
>
> i did an 64-bit allyesconfig build test (with debug_info disabled), with
> and without CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE set.
>
> The build time results are:
>
> -CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE: 266.30
> +CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE: 296.07 (+11.2%)
>
> So we get more than 10% build time overhead.
>
> That's quite high - higher than what i remember having measured
> originally when the first iteration of the mcount code went in.
>
> This extra overhead comes from the mcount post-processing script
> (scripts/recordmcount.pl) that runs objcopy as well and is written in
> Perl. I think this whole angle needs to be improved - 10% is way too
> high of a price to pay.

Yeah, I know this is quite a hit, and to fix this is on my todo list.
What I plan on doing is checking if libelf is installed, and if it is,
then doing a C program that does the linking and checking. If not, it
defaults back to the perl code.

But I'm bug hunting right now, and that takes a higher priority.

-- Steve



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