Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-07-12 Thread Sven Kieske
On So, 2022-07-10 at 10:36 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 7/10/22 04:38, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > Have you rebuilt all system packages with -fno-omit-frame-pointer or > > just tested packages? > > > No.  Early in the thread, Tomasz Torcz posted a link to a Phoronix > article as

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-07-10 Thread Jeff Law
On 7/10/2022 11:36 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 7/10/22 04:38, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: Have you rebuilt all system packages with -fno-omit-frame-pointer or just tested packages? No.  Early in the thread, Tomasz Torcz posted a link to a Phoronix article as evidence that Fedora's

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-07-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 7/10/22 10:55, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: On 10/07/2022 19:36, Gordon Messmer wrote: No.  Early in the thread, Tomasz Torcz posted a link to a Phoronix article as evidence that Fedora's performance was behind other distributions. All packages in the dependency tree must be rebuilt

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-07-10 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 10/07/2022 19:36, Gordon Messmer wrote: No.  Early in the thread, Tomasz Torcz posted a link to a Phoronix article as evidence that Fedora's performance was behind other distributions. All packages in the dependency tree must be rebuilt with -fno-omit-frame-pointer flag, otherwise the

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-07-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 7/10/22 04:38, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: Have you rebuilt all system packages with -fno-omit-frame-pointer or just tested packages? No.  Early in the thread, Tomasz Torcz posted a link to a Phoronix article as evidence that Fedora's performance was behind other distributions.  At

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-07-10 Thread Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
On 09/07/2022 22:32, Gordon Messmer wrote: I cannot replicate any of the differences that I would expect to be able to.  More than anything else, their results look like evidence of a bug in the Xeon Platinum 8380. Have you rebuilt all system packages with -fno-omit-frame-pointer or just

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-07-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/22 21:40, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 6/21/22 13:10, Matthew Miller wrote: Phoronix credits this to those distros shipping with P-state Performance by default. Yes, but I doubt that for several reasons: First, it's a claim without evidence.  That setting isn't the only difference

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/22 13:10, Matthew Miller wrote: Phoronix credits this to those distros shipping with P-state Performance by default. Yes, but I doubt that for several reasons: First, it's a claim without evidence.  That setting isn't the only difference between any two systems tested.  Second, the

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-21 Thread Justin Forbes
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 3:11 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 01:36:22PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > can probably just treat as a proxy for RHEL performance.) Clear and > > RHEL (rebuilds) probably get most of their advantages from building > > for an x86_64-v2

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 01:36:22PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > can probably just treat as a proxy for RHEL performance.) Clear and > RHEL (rebuilds) probably get most of their advantages from building > for an x86_64-v2 microarchitecture, which Fedora discussed and > rejected last year (after

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/21/22 05:10, Stephen Smoogen wrote: I am expecting the words are: I would like to see benchmarks we can agree are useful being done by a 'trusted' third party versus a site (or at least does Apples to Apples comparisons of Alma 9 vs CS9 vs Fedora 34 and Alma8 vs CS8 vs Fedora 29 etc ).

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-21 Thread Stephen Smoogen
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 at 19:31, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Alma is release 8 and CentOS Stream is release 9. I am not surprised > that there are some benchmarks where they differ. I would, however, be > fairly surprised if benchmarks showed significant differences between > RHEL, Alma, and CentOS

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/20/22 13:17, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: Actually, in the cases in the past where I looked at Phoronix benchmarks, Clear got most of it's performance advantage from defaulting to "Performance" setting of the CPU, while almost everyone else defaults to "Balanced". I'd be surprised

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-20 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 01:36:22PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 6/17/22 12:15, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > On 6/17/22 01:41, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > > I can only concur. Say what you want about Phoronix benchmark, but > > > they consistently benchmark different distributions And Fedora > >

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-19 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 6/19/22 16:36, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 6/17/22 12:15, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> On 6/17/22 01:41, Tomasz Torcz wrote: >>> I can only concur. Say what you want about Phoronix benchmark, but >>> they consistently benchmark different distributions And Fedora >>> consistently is lagging

Re: Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 6/17/22 12:15, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: On 6/17/22 01:41, Tomasz Torcz wrote: I can only concur. Say what you want about Phoronix benchmark, but they consistently benchmark different distributions And Fedora consistently is lagging behind. Latest article is at

Making Fedora faster (was Re: F37 proposal: Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer to default compilation flags (System-Wide Change proposal))

2022-06-17 Thread Demi Marie Obenour
On 6/17/22 01:41, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 07:13:55PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: >> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/fno-omit-frame-pointer >>> [...] >>> === Unwinding === >>> [...] >>> * Kernel 4.8 frame pointer benchmarks by Suse showed 5%-10% >>> regressions