Re: Very slow clang kernel config ..

[Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 5:19 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> A quick:
> $ perf record -e cycles:pp --call-graph lbr make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
> -j72 allmodconfig
> $ perf report --no-children --sort=dso,symbol
> shows:
>      2.35%  [unknown]                [k] 0xffffffffabc00fc7
> +    2.29%  libc-2.31.so             [.] _int_malloc
>      1.24%  libc-2.31.so             [.] _int_free
> +    1.23%  ld-2.31.so               [.] do_lookup_x

^ bfd

> +    1.14%  libc-2.31.so             [.] __strlen_avx2
> +    1.06%  libc-2.31.so             [.] malloc
> +    1.03%  clang-13                 [.] llvm::StringMapImpl::LookupBucketFor
>      1.01%  libc-2.31.so             [.] __memmove_avx_unaligned_erms
> +    0.76%  conf                     [.] yylex

^ kconfig

> +    0.68%  clang-13                 [.] llvm::Instruction::getNumSuccessors
> +    0.63%  libbfd-2.35.2-system.so  [.] bfd_hash_lookup

^ bfd

> +    0.63%  clang-13                 [.] llvm::PMDataManager::findAnalysisPass

^ this is another suspect one to me, though perhaps I should isolate
out the HOSTCC invocations vs cc-option checks. Should retest with
just CC=clang rather than HOSTCC=clang set via LLVM=1.

> +    0.63%  ld-2.31.so               [.] _dl_lookup_symbol_x

^ bfd

>      0.62%  libc-2.31.so             [.] __memcmp_avx2_movbe
>      0.60%  libc-2.31.so             [.] __strcmp_avx2
> +    0.56%  clang-13                 [.] llvm::ValueHandleBase::AddToUseList
> +    0.56%  clang-13                 [.]
> llvm::operator==<llvm::DenseMap<llvm::BasicBlock const*, unsigned int,
> llvm::DenseMapInfo<llvm::BasicBlock const*>, llvm::detail::Dense
>      0.53%  clang-13                 [.]
> llvm::SmallPtrSetImplBase::insert_imp_big


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers