From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934143Ab2LINYR (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2012 08:24:17 -0500 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:58689 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934112Ab2LINYQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2012 08:24:16 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 14:24:13 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: John Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expand CPU compiler options Message-ID: <20121209132413.GE24106@liondog.tnic> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , John , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" References: <1354745355.79857.YahooMailNeo@web140001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20121205222738.GB6239@liondog.tnic> <1354748412.17691.YahooMailNeo@web140005.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20121205230835.GF6222@liondog.tnic> <1354968839.35825.YahooMailNeo@web140006.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20121209111857.GC24106@liondog.tnic> <1355054935.13447.YahooMailNeo@web140004.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <20121209122907.GD24106@liondog.tnic> <1355057981.88866.YahooMailNeo@web140001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1355057981.88866.YahooMailNeo@web140001.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:59:41AM -0800, John wrote: > My only confusion is why some of these are already included in the > linux kernel source today, for example CORE2.  As I stated in my > previous email, the two 'new' ones I tested preform as-good-as or > better-than the CORE2 which is already included.  Does my confusion > make sense? That's a good question. Hmm, next question :-). In any case, I've yet to see significant perf improvements to the kernel due to it being built with specific uarch -mtune settings. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris.