On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 16:56 +0530, Sujith Manoharan wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > Somehow exporting too many variables completely confuses the kernel's > > Makefiles into trying to calculate the size of every file in a very slow > > shell script ... this is causing EXTREME build slowdowns for me. > > > > These two patches fix it. > > Nice. > > Trying to build ath9k.. > > Before: > > real 1m18.689s > user 3m1.382s > sys 0m6.833s > > After: > > real 0m42.091s > user 1m30.024s > sys 0m5.700s Yeah, I also see about 50% build time now with everything in cache, if the files it's sizing up aren't in cache then it can be much slower with the old version. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
