This speeds up buildworld by 16% on my system and buildkernel by 35%.
Rather than calling mkdep(1), which is just a wrapper around 'cc -E',
use the modern -MD -MT -MF flags to gather and generate dependencies during
compilation. This flag was introduced in GCC "a long time ago", in GCC 3.0,
and is also supported by Clang. (It appears that ICC also supports this but I
do not have access to test it). This avoids running the preprocessor *twice*
for every build, in both 'make depend' and 'make all'. This is especially
noticeable when using ccache since it does not cache preprocessor results from
mkdep(1) / 'cc -E', but still speeds up compilation with the -MD flags.
For 'make depend' a tree-walk is still done to ensure that all DPSRCS
are generated when expected, and that beforedepend/afterdepend and
_EXTRADEPEND are all still respected. In time this may change but for now
I've been conservative. The time for a tree-walk with -j combined with
SUBDIR_PARALLEL is not significant. For example, it takes about 9 seconds
with -j15 to walk all of src/ for 'make depend' now on my system.
A .depend file is still generated with the various rules that apply to
the final target, or custom rules. Otherwise there are now
per-built-object-file .depend files, such as .depend.filename.o. These
are included directly by make rather than populating .depend with a loop
and .depend lines, which only added overhead to the now almost-NOP 'make
depend' phase.
Before this I experimented with having mkdep(1) called in parallel per-file.
While this improved the kernel and lib/libc 'make depend' phase, it resulted
in slower build times overall.
The -M flags are removed from CFLAGS when linking since they have no effect.
Enabling this by default, for src or out-of-src, can be done once more testing
has been done, such as a ports exp-run, and with more compilers.
The system I used for testing was:
WITNESS
Build options: -j20 WITH_LLDB=yes WITH_DEBUG_FILES=yes WITH_FAST_DEPEND=yes
DISK: ZFS 3-way mirror with very slow disks using SSD l2arc/log.
The arc was fully populated with src tree files.
RAM: 76GiB
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @2.27GHz
2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 SMT threads = hw.ncpu=16
buildworld:
x buildworld-before
+ buildworld-fastdep
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|+ |
|+ |
|+ xx x|
| |_MA___||
|A |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 3 3744.13 3794.31 3752.25 3763.5633 26.935139
+ 3 3153.34 3155.16 3154.2 3154.2333 0.91045776
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-609.33 +/- 43.1943
-16.1902% +/- 1.1477%
(Student's t, pooled s = 19.0569)
buildkernel:
x buildkernel-before
+ buildkernel-fastdep
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|+ x |
|++ xx|
| A||
|A| |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 3 571.57 573.94 571.79 572.43333 1.3094401
+ 3 369.12 370.57 369.3 369.66333 0.79033748
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-202.77 +/- 2.45131
-35.4225% +/- 0.428227%
(Student's t, pooled s = 1.0815)
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
MFC after: 3 weeks
Relnotes: yes
are built by default. You can still override that with MODULES_EXTRA
for experimental features like ZFS and dtrace on some
architectures. Also note that kernel config files are not affected by
MK_ options listed, though some targets might be.
any defaults or user specified actions on the command line. This would
be useful for specifying features that are always broken or that
cannot make sense on a specific architecture, like ACPI on pc98 or
EISA on !i386 (!x86 usage of EISA is broken and there's no supported
hardware that could have it in any event). Any items in
__ALWAYS_NO_OPTIONS are forced to "no" regardless of other settings.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2011
any defaults or user specified actions on the command line. This would
be useful for specifying features that are always broken or that
cannot make sense on a specific architecture, like ACPI on pc98 or
EISA on !i386 (!x86 usage of EISA is broken and there's no supported
hardware that could have it in any event). Any items in
BROKEN_OPTIONS are forced to "no" regardless of other settings.
Clients are expected change BROKEN_OPTIONS with +=. It will not
be unset, so other parts of the build system can have visibility
into the options that are broken on this platform, though this
should be very rare.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2009
the oabi is still in the tree, but it is expected this will be removed
as developers work on surrounding code.
With this commit the ARM EABI is the only supported supported ABI by
FreeBSD on ARMa 32-bit processors.
X-MFC after: never
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D876
options into kern.opts.mk and change all the places where we use
src.opts.mk to pull in the options. Conditionally define SYSDIR and
use SYSDIR/conf/kern.opts.mk instead of a CURDIR path. Replace all
instances of CURDIR/../../etc with STSDIR, but only in the affected
files.
As a special compatibility hack, include bsd.owm.mk at the top of
kern.opts.mk to allow the bare build of sys/modules to work on older
systems. If the defaults ever change between 9.x, 10.x and current for
these options, however, you'll wind up with the host OS' defaults
rather than the -current defaults. This hack will be removed when
we no longer need to support this build scenario.
Reviewed by: jhb
Differential Revision: https://phabric.freebsd.org/D529
opt_inet6.h into kmod.mk by forcing almost everybody to eat the same
dogfood. While at it, consolidate the opt_bpf.h and opt_mroute.h
targets here too.
src/sys and the rest of the tree for builds.
o eliminate including bsd.mkopts.mk for the moment in kern.opts.mk
o No need to include src.opts.mk at all anymore. The reasons for it
are now coverted in sys.mk and src.sys.mk.
does an out-of-tree build without setting MAKESYSPATH) and recently
added requirements (JIRA's building the modules in a non-standard
layout). So, when MAKESYSPATH is defined, trust that it will do the
right thing (to catch the JIRA use case). When it isn't defined,
assume a standard FreeBSD tree and reach over to grab bsd.mkopt.mk (to
fix the /usr/ports use case). Both camps cannot be appeased otherwise,
so we have this kludge until it can be sorted out.