Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.3-pre1 compile error

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:52:04PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 04:44:54PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Numbers please.
> > 
> > I'd MUCH rather just clean up the include file hierarchy than have these
> > kinds of non-local knowledge issues.
> 
> The last time I did it for fs.h et al (this meant pulling the fs.h and 
> sched.h codependancy apart), it got 2.4 compiles back down to 2.2 compile 
> times (3m -> 2m45s maybe 2m30s iirc) -- about a 10% drop in compile time.  
> It's even more noticeable when you're doing a fully blown modular kernel 
> build as distributions do.

The difference between 3 minutes and 2.45 isn't really a lot imho. What
is interesting if difference scales; that is, if you compile on a 486
or so, does the 10% drop still hold, or are we still talking about a
difference of 15 seconds. If the latter, I'd go for the cleanup,
but if the former is true, maybe, just maybe, the ugly version might
be the solution.

I'd prefer all includes that can be to be non-conditional, though.


/David
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