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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf auto-dep: Speed up feature tests by building them in parallel
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:04:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130930190434.GA3427@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130930175342.GI10293@ghostprotocols.net>


* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> wrote:

> Em Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:34:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds escreveu:
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> > <acme@ghostprotocols.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Checking why that strlcpy failed...
> > 
> > I don't think glibc does strlcpy. It's not a standard C function, and
> 
> My concern was more about the thinking: ``Is this red "OFF" thing a 
> problem?  I feel so much more confortable when all entries have nice 
> green "on" lights...''

Yeah, so I think we should add our internal implementation of strlcpy() as 
a __weak function instead - if the libc does not provide then we provide a 
fallback.

That should get rid of another ~50 msecs of build overhead, as failed 
feature tests are the most expensive ones.

Agreed?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-30 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-12 13:38 [GIT PULL] perf fixes Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 18:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 18:10   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 18:43     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-12 19:12       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-12 19:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 19:55       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 19:58       ` David Ahern
2013-09-12 20:02         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-12 20:31           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-15  9:10               ` [PATCH] perf test-hack: Split out feature tests to cache them and to build them in parallel Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 16:42                 ` [PATCH] perf auto-dep: Speed up feature tests by building " Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 17:12                   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:27                     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:30                       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:36                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:39                           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 17:46                             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 18:02                               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 19:15                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 19:09                         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-30 17:34                     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-30 17:53                       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-30 19:04                         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-10-01 11:34                           ` [PATCH] perf autodep: Remove strlcpy feature check, add __weak strlcpy implementation Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 12:04                             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 12:48                               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-01 12:51                               ` [PATCH] perf autodep: Speed up the 'all features are present' case Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 14:46                             ` [PATCH] perf tools: Speed up git-version test on re-make Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  6:47                               ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-02  6:50                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  8:04                                   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-01 15:27                             ` [PATCH] perf autodep: Remove strlcpy feature check, add __weak strlcpy implementation Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01 15:29                               ` [PATCH] perf tools: Speed up the final link Ingo Molnar
2013-10-01  7:04                       ` [PATCH] perf auto-dep: Speed up feature tests by building them in parallel Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-10-01  8:38                         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  6:05                   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-10-02  6:28                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  9:26                   ` Jiri Olsa
2013-10-02 10:11                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:18         ` [GIT PULL] perf fixes Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:38           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-09-12 20:46             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 21:09               ` David Ahern
2013-09-12 21:18                 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 22:10                   ` David Ahern
2013-09-13  5:09                     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-13  9:32                       ` Jean Pihet
2013-09-13  9:45                         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-13 17:15                           ` Jean Pihet
2013-09-12 18:51     ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 20:33       ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 20:49           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-12 21:01               ` Ingo Molnar
2013-09-12 20:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  7:31   ` [PATCH] tools/perf: Fix double/triple-build of the feature detection logic during 'make install' et al Ingo Molnar
2013-10-02  9:28     ` [PATCH] tools/perf/build: Automatically build in parallel, based on number of CPUs in the system Ingo Molnar

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