How to benchmark kernel (-Os vs -O2)
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It seems logical to me that on a 64-bit kernel compiling it to optimize for size might help overall. (My distro of choice uses -O2) It has the benefits of more registers and memory and perhaps less cache contention than normal optimized code. I have a kernel compiled like this and it seems excellen…
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If your -Os compiled kernel "seems excellent" I think you shouldn't care benchmarking it, here is why: The problem with benchmarks will always be to choose what types of loads you test. Even if Phoronix Test Suite is fine to highlight differences be…
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