Kashyap Chamarthy <kashyap.cv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 13/05/2013 06:13:23 PM: > Just to be clear: > > - Short make - Subsequent runs of 'make 'after the first run (i.e. > from page-cache). > - Long make - 1st run of 'make' , after a 'make clean' (i.e. from disk). > > I presume that above is what you meant. Not exactly. With short a make I was a referring to a run that does not take more than few minutes and with a long a make I was referring to a run that may take an hour. > > > > > Note that if you just run make then the source files will be loaded > > from disk only the first run (lot of I/O, which is slow with nested). > > Next runs may load the files from the page-cache and you may notice a > > performance improvement. > > Glad that you mention it.. > > > Maybe, that's why your results were not like we expected in the first > > time. > > > > ..I did perform a "make clean" before doing "make" on each run. I > note it in the above kvm_stat files. Note that "make clean" clears the output but the source files may still be in the page-cache (if they were loaded into the cache by a previous run). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
