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SubjectRe: [llvmlinux] percpu | bitmap issue? (Cannot boot on bare metal due to a kernel NULL pointer dereference)
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:

> I can comment at least a little about the -Os aspect (although not I'm no
> expert on this in particular). In general, for _most_ use cases, a kernel
> compiled with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE will run slower than one compiled
> without it. On rare occasion though, it may actually run faster, the only
> cases I've seen where this happens are specialized uses that are very memory
> pressure dependent and run almost entirely in userspace with almost no
> syscalls (for example math related stuff operating on _very, very big_ (as in,
> >1 trillion elements) multidimensional matrices, with complex memory
> constraints), and even then it's usually a miniscule improvement in
> performance (generally less than 1%, which can of course be significant
> depending on how long it takes before the improvement).

Cache footprint depends on size which has a significant impact on
performance. In our experience the kernel (and any other code) is
generally faster if optimized for size.



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