On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 4:25 AM, Helge Deller <del...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> kernel gcc binutils with mlong without mlong >> >> 4.15.7 4.9.3 2.25.1 13.4 MB/s 27.0 MB/s >> >> 4.15.7 6.4.0 2.25.1 13.4 MB/s 27.0 MB/s >> >> 4.15.7 6.4.0 2.29.1 14.4 MB/s 25.0 MB/s >> > Interesting bad results! >> > >> It's hard to understand why the performance would deteriorate so much >> but I see essentially the same behavior. > > Speaking of debian kernel, it's nearly impossible to link a kernel without > mlong-calls.
This week I succeeded in building a stripped-down kernel without mlong-calls (in Gentoo), but was unable to get anything to link without mlong-calls when CONFIG_PARISC_PAGE_SIZE_16KB=y. With mlong-calls, I couldn't get a 16K page-size kernel to boot either. Is this a configuration anyone uses or tests? 16K pages are supposed to give better performance, so it'd be good if they worked.
