Re: [PATCH] Makefile: evaluate LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID only once

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Wed May 03 2017 - 00:49:50 EST


2017-05-01 1:16 GMT+09:00 Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>:
> Evaluate LDFLAGS_BUILD_ID (which involves invoking the compiler) only
> once instead of over and over.
>
> This provides a ~20% reduction in null build time with x86 allnoconfig:
>
> $ make allnoconfig && make -j8
> $ perf stat -r5 -e sched:sched_process_exec make -j8
> - 2 119 sched:sched_process_exec
> + 1 878 sched:sched_process_exec
>
> - 1,238817018 seconds time elapsed
> + 0,971020553 seconds time elapsed
>
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@xxxxxx>


Applied to linux-kbuild/kbuild. Thanks!


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Masahiro Yamada