On 2013-12-09 22:51, David Heidelberger wrote: > Hello, > > this patch is used in Gentoo geek-sources and mptcp-sources (and > probably in lot other kernel sources sets). So, there was lot testing. > > It's not _big_ performance difference, but -mtune=native is nice to have. > It could be great, if this kernel option could be fully utilized without > need of additional patching.
This really depends on how you define 'big'. Even a 1% performance increase is significant for a realtime system, and for someone with a cluster of systems, getting even a small improvement in performance on all of the systems could mean a huge increase in effective processing power. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/