On Tue, 19 May 2015, Martin Liška wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I've just noticed that we, for default configuration, produce just 30
> partitions.
> I'm wondering whether that's fine, or it would be necessary to re-tune
> partitioning
> algorithm to produce better balanced map?
> 
> Attached patch is used to produce following dump:
> 
> Partition sizes:
> partition 0 contains 9806 (5.42)% symbols and 232445 (2.37)% insns
> partition 1 contains 15004 (8.30)% symbols and 389297 (3.96)% insns
> partition 2 contains 13954 (7.71)% symbols and 390076 (3.97)% insns
> partition 3 contains 14349 (7.93)% symbols and 390476 (3.97)% insns
> partition 4 contains 13852 (7.66)% symbols and 391346 (3.98)% insns
> partition 5 contains 10766 (5.95)% symbols and 278110 (2.83)% insns
> partition 6 contains 11465 (6.34)% symbols and 396298 (4.03)% insns
> partition 7 contains 16467 (9.10)% symbols and 396043 (4.03)% insns
> partition 8 contains 12959 (7.16)% symbols and 316753 (3.22)% insns
> partition 9 contains 17422 (9.63)% symbols and 402809 (4.10)% insns
> partition 10 contains 15431 (8.53)% symbols and 404822 (4.12)% insns
> partition 11 contains 15967 (8.83)% symbols and 342655 (3.49)% insns
> partition 12 contains 12325 (6.81)% symbols and 409573 (4.17)% insns
> partition 13 contains 11876 (6.57)% symbols and 411484 (4.19)% insns
> partition 14 contains 20902 (11.56)% symbols and 391188 (3.98)% insns
> partition 15 contains 18894 (10.45)% symbols and 339148 (3.45)% insns
> partition 16 contains 27028 (14.94)% symbols and 426811 (4.34)% insns
> partition 17 contains 19626 (10.85)% symbols and 431548 (4.39)% insns
> partition 18 contains 23864 (13.19)% symbols and 437657 (4.45)% insns
> partition 19 contains 28677 (15.86)% symbols and 445054 (4.53)% insns
> partition 20 contains 32558 (18.00)% symbols and 457975 (4.66)% insns
> partition 21 contains 37598 (20.79)% symbols and 470463 (4.79)% insns
> partition 22 contains 21612 (11.95)% symbols and 488384 (4.97)% insns
> partition 23 contains 18981 (10.49)% symbols and 493152 (5.02)% insns
> partition 24 contains 20591 (11.38)% symbols and 493380 (5.02)% insns
> partition 25 contains 20721 (11.46)% symbols and 496018 (5.05)% insns
> partition 26 contains 26171 (14.47)% symbols and 479232 (4.88)% insns
> partition 27 contains 29242 (16.17)% symbols and 530613 (5.40)% insns
> partition 28 contains 35817 (19.80)% symbols and 563768 (5.74)% insns
> partition 29 contains 42662 (23.59)% symbols and 741133 (7.54)% insns
> 
> As seen, there are partitions that are about 3x bigger than a different one.
> What do you think about installing the patch to trunk? If yes, I'll test the
> patch
> and write a ChangeLog entry.

I think a patch like this is fine (lto-partition.h parts are missing).

Thanks,
Richard.

> Thanks,
> Martin
> 

-- 
Richard Biener <rguent...@suse.de>
SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham 
Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg)

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