On Tue, 2024-04-02 at 15:07 -0400, John Kacur wrote: > > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2024, Crystal Wood wrote: > > > We only ever do out-of-tree builds, so the kernel directory should not > > be > > getting damaged except by incomplete extraction (which mrproper would > > probably not fix) or external meddling. So, skip the mrproper and > > instead re-extract if a "make clean" fails. > > > > Also, add -j to cleancmd to further speed things up. Startup speed may > > not seem all that important given how long rteval is typically run for, > > but this helps make quick tests (e.g. while debugging things, or when > > hunting a latency that shows up very quickly) less painful. > > > > On my 12-cpu laptop, this patch saves about 15 seconds of startup time. > > > > Signed-off-by: Crystal Wood <crwood@xxxxxxxxxx> > You would probably achieve close to the same or better by just using '-j' > with make mrproper Perhaps it would be almost as fast, depending on the system you're running it on (and how many non-isolated cores it has). But it really doesn't seem necessary. As for better, how? We're going from mrproper *and* clean to just clean. The re-extraction only happens if clean fails. -Crystal
