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Re: Compiling kernels faster (was Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null))

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Hi Pavel,

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Thu 2017-03-09 13:16:09, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> > On Thu 2017-03-09 10:38:46, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> >> I hope you do use ccache or distcc?
>> >
>> > I tried to use distcc before, but it was rather hard to maintain. No
>> > ccache here. Hmm. I guess ccache really makes sense for bisect.
>>
>> Yes it does. So if you're not using it yet, do the below, today, not tomorrow.
>>
>> If your distro supports it, prepend /usr/lib/ccache/ to your $PATH.
>> Create symlinks from the names of your favorite cross-compilers
>> to /usr/bin/ccache, and make sure they are early in your $PATH.
>>
>> That's it! Enjoy!
>
> Hmm. Installed, and seems to work. OTOH, compilation now seems to
> produce 2-3MB/sec writing on spinning rust, and CPUs are no longer
> fully loaded. (make -j 7 on 2 core HT machine). Any io load sends the
> CPU utilization to cca 50% range... Compilation goes up from 9:13 to
> 11:40... to 23 minutes depending on situation. I guess it is still

I guess that was the first build, with a clean cache?
Now run "make clean", and try again ;-)

BTW, I tend not to do -j beyond the number of cores/threads (i.e. -j 8
on the i7-4770), unless you just want to compile, and not enjoy other
interactive work ;-)

> worth it for the bisect, but it looks like ccache really needs an ssd.

Adding an SSD never hurts.
Although I have been a happy user of ccache since long before I got an SSD.

> Hmm. And killing chromium matters a lot for a compile time. I hate
> modern web :-(.

Adding (freeing) RAM also never hurts ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

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Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-03 01:20 +0100
  Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-06 17:50 +0100
    Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-07 19:40 +0100
      Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-07 19:40 +0100
      Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-07 19:50 +0100
        Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 18:50 +0100
          Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-08 20:00 +0100
            Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-03-08 20:10 +0100
            Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-08 22:40 +0100
              Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2017-03-09 15:20 +0100
                Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-09 19:40 +0100
            Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-09 00:20 +0100
              Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-03-09 10:40 +0100
                Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-09 12:00 +0100
                Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-03-09 13:20 +0100
                Compiling kernels faster (was Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer  .. has bad value (null)) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-10 14:20 +0100
                Re: Compiling kernels faster (was Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame  pointer .. has bad value (null)) Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-03-10 14:30 +0100
                Re: Compiling kernels faster (was Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame  pointer .. has bad value (null)) Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> - 2017-03-10 15:20 +0100
              Old compiler versions (was Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer ..  has bad value (null)) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-09 12:00 +0100
                Re: Old compiler versions (was Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer  .. has bad value (null)) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-09 19:10 +0100
              Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2017-03-09 16:40 +0100
                Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-03-09 22:20 +0100
    Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2017-03-07 19:40 +0100
      Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2017-03-07 20:00 +0100
      Re: v4.10: kernel stack frame pointer .. has bad value (null) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-07 20:50 +0100

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