On 03/30/12 07:30, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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 Please put this in stable as well, seems like a good thing ;-) Thanks, Rick > 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 > -- 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
