2017-06-01 23:57 GMT+09:00 Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>: > checksyscalls.sh is run at every "make" run while building the kernel, > even if no files have changed. I looked at where we spend time in > a trivial empty rebuild and found checksyscalls.sh to be a source > of noticeable overhead, as it spawns a lot of child processes just > to call 'cat' copying from stdin to stdout, once for each of the > over 400 x86 syscalls. > > Using a shell-builtin (echo) instead of the external command gives > us a 13x speedup: > > Before After > real 0m1.018s real 0m0.077s > user 0m0.068s user 0m0.048s > sys 0m0.156s sys 0m0.024s > > The time it took to rebuild a single file on my machine dropped > from 5.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Applied to linux-kbuild/kbuild. Thanks! -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
