Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | ling.ma@intel ... | Subject | [PATCH RFC] [X86] Compile Option Os versus O2 on latest x86 platform | Date | Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:05:52 +0800 |
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From: Ma Ling <ling.ma@intel.com>
Hi All
In current kernel compile original option we prefer Os to O2. Os will reduce compiled kernel code size obviously, and O2 pay more attention to performance than code size, so in real environment O2 will bring more i-cache miss than Os, totally performance should slowdown.
In our system test machine kernel code size from Os is 12M, and that from O2 is 14M.
But we have two questions about it on latest platform: 1. 10% * current kernel code size from Os(CPU execution path) is far more L1 i-cache size, the difference of i-cache-miss counts from both options should become little. 2. our latest platform should has excellent prefetch capability by adjusting predication execution path.
Based on above reasons we re-compiled linux kernel with O2 option on below platform. CPU type: 2P Quad-core Core i7(2 socket*4 core *2 hyper threads) CPU frequency: 2670MHz Memory: 6 x 1GBMb
We mainly tested common and stable benchmarks two times, results show O2 performance is better than Os (linux kernel version 2.6.32-rc8)
Benchmarks: improvement volano 8% netperf 6.7% tbench 6.45% Kbuild 5.5% (3 time test, average improvement) specjbb2000 2% fio 2% specjbb2005 No change cpu2000 No change aim7 No change hackbench No Change oltp No Change
This patch try to enable O2 option and disable Os option.
Appreciate any comments.
Thanks Ling
--- arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig index 6c86acd..d564b90 100644 --- a/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig +++ b/arch/x86/configs/x86_64_defconfig @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="" CONFIG_RD_GZIP=y CONFIG_RD_BZIP2=y CONFIG_RD_LZMA=y -CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y +CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_ANON_INODES=y # CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not set -- 1.6.2.5
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