Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] kernel.h further split

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On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 03:59:08PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 02:51:15PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 1:34 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

> > Meanwhile, Thorsten, can you have a look at my approach and tell if it
> > makes sense?
> 
> No, do not use ccache when trying to benchmark the speed of kernel
> builds, that tests the speed of your disk subsystem...

First rule of the measurement is to be sure WHAT we are measuring.
And I'm pretty much explained WHAT and HOW. On the other hand, the
kcbench can't answer to the question about C preprocessing speed
without help of ccache or something similar.

Measuring complete build is exactly not what we want because of
O(compilation) vs. o(C preprocessing) meaning that any fluctuation
in the former makes silly to measure anything from the latter.

You see, my theory is proved by practical experiment:

$ kcbench -i 3 -j 64 -o $O -s $PWD --no-download -m
Processor:           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz [88 CPUs]
Cpufreq; Memory:     powersave [intel_pstate]; 128823 MiB
Linux running:       5.6.0-2-amd64 [x86_64]
Compiler:            gcc (Debian 10.3.0-11) 10.3.0
Linux compiled:      5.15.0-rc4
Config; Environment: allmodconfig; CCACHE_DISABLE="1"
Build command:       make vmlinux modules
Filling caches:      This might take a while... Done
Run 1 (-j 64):       464.07 seconds / 7.76 kernels/hour [P:6001%]
Run 2 (-j 64):       464.64 seconds / 7.75 kernels/hour [P:6000%]
Run 3 (-j 64):       486.41 seconds / 7.40 kernels/hour [P:5727%]

$ kcbench -i 3 -j 64 -o $O -s $PWD --no-download -m
Processor:           Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz [88 CPUs]
Cpufreq; Memory:     powersave [intel_pstate]; 128823 MiB
Linux running:       5.6.0-2-amd64 [x86_64]
Compiler:            gcc (Debian 10.3.0-11) 10.3.0
Linux compiled:      5.15.0-rc4
Config; Environment: allmodconfig; CCACHE_DISABLE="1"
Build command:       make vmlinux modules
Filling caches:      This might take a while... Done
Run 1 (-j 64):       462.32 seconds / 7.79 kernels/hour [P:6009%]
Run 2 (-j 64):       462.33 seconds / 7.79 kernels/hour [P:6006%]
Run 3 (-j 64):       465.45 seconds / 7.73 kernels/hour [P:5999%]

In [41]: numpy.median(y1)
Out[41]: 464.64

In [42]: numpy.median(y2)
Out[42]: 462.33

Speedup: +0.5%

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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