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author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2014-07-07 23:35:11 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2014-07-08 10:56:47 -0700 |
commit | 066dd2632acf11a348ff209b79f42c1a87a71fbb (patch) | |
tree | 07116ea0e32429685fb4c0cf00f7e7a48afd79b9 /INSTALL | |
parent | Run the perf test suite for profile feedback too (diff) | |
download | tgif-066dd2632acf11a348ff209b79f42c1a87a71fbb.tar.xz |
Fix profile feedback with -jN and add profile-fast
Profile feedback always failed for me with -jN. The problem
was that there was no implicit ordering between the profile generate
stage and the profile use stage. So some objects in the later stage
would be linked with profile generate objects, and fail due
to the missing -lgcov.
This adds a new profile target that implicitely enforces the
correct ordering by using submakes. Plus a profile-install target
to also install. This is also nicer to type that PROFILE=...
Plus I always run the performance test suite now for the full
profile run.
In addition I also added a profile-fast / profile-fast-install
target the only runs the performance test suite instead of the
whole test suite. This significantly speeds up the profile build,
which was totally dominated by test suite run time. However
it may have less coverage of course.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
-rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ set up install paths (via config.mak.autogen), so you can write instead If you're willing to trade off (much) longer build time for a later faster git you can also do a profile feedback build with - $ make prefix=/usr PROFILE=BUILD all + $ make prefix=/usr profile # make prefix=/usr PROFILE=BUILD install This will run the complete test suite as training workload and then @@ -36,10 +36,20 @@ rebuild git with the generated profile feedback. This results in a git which is a few percent faster on CPU intensive workloads. This may be a good tradeoff for distribution packagers. +Alternatively you can run profile feedback only with the git benchmark +suite. This runs significantly faster than the full test suite, but +has less coverage: + + $ make prefix=/usr profile-fast + # make prefix=/usr PROFILE=BUILD install + Or if you just want to install a profile-optimized version of git into your home directory, you could run: - $ make PROFILE=BUILD install + $ make profile-install + +or + $ make profile-fast-install As a caveat: a profile-optimized build takes a *lot* longer since the git tree must be built twice, and in order for the profiling |