Re: RPi 4 build time

On 2021-May-21, at 13:58, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2021-May-21, at 13:07, Evgeniy Khramtsov via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> How long are compile times for aarch64 8 GB RPi? It is especially
>> interesting to know about overclocked results. I guess buildworld time
>> would describe it well, but any heavy port (ex. rust) would also be great.
> 
> To get useful figures may require specification of more context.
> For example, building rust uses over 17 GiBytes of temporary file
> space. This suggests that its build time may be very dependent on
> the media in use. Also the configuration of building ports in
> parallel and/or allowing a port builder to potentially have an
> ready-to-run process for each of the 4 cores makes for large
> differences.
> 
> Also, for buildworld, there is a large difference for when a
> bootstrap set of clang/llvm materials is built vs. when that
> extra clang/llvm material does not build (even if the normal
> llvm material are built).
> 
> There are also issues like if ccache is in use and is providing
> a signficant amount of hot-cache results. (I do not use ccache.)
> The same sort of thing apply to META_MODE use and rebuilds: was
> the build "from scratch" vs. just a partial rebuild? (I do use
> META_MODE.)
> 
> I've not done lang/rust builds on a RPi4B. (And, for ports, I
> normally allow multiple ports to build at once, each allowed
> to have a ready-to-run process per core.)
> 
> As for buildworld/buildkernel "from scratch", that I have done
> and recorded some figures:
> 
> Context:
> 
> make[1]: "/usr/fbsd/mm-src/Makefile.inc1" line 339: SYSTEM_COMPILER: Determined that CC=cc matches the source tree.  Not bootstrapping a cross-compiler.
> make[1]: "/usr/fbsd/mm-src/Makefile.inc1" line 344: SYSTEM_LINKER: Determined that LD=ld matches the source tree.  Not bootstrapping a cross-linker.
> 
> I use a USB3 SSD to hold the UFS file system, swap space,
> and the msdos file system used in booting. No microsd card
> use at all. The USB3 SSD seems to be fairly effective at
> making the storage-I/O performant for the RPi4B context.
> 
> And oddity of my context is I have the code generation set
> up to tune for cortex-a72 specifically. Both the system doing
> the build and the built system were based on such tuning.
> 
> ENVIRONMENT: -mcpu=cortex-a72 RPi4B @ 2000 MHz, hw.physmem:8464072704 :
> ( arm_freq=2000, sdram_freq_min=3200, force_turbo=1 )
> 
> World build completed on Fri Mar 26 19:10:11 PDT 2021
> World built in 22491 seconds, ncpu: 4, make -j4
> Kernel build for GENERIC-NODBG completed on Fri Mar 26 19:38:33 PDT 2021
> Kernel(s)  GENERIC-NODBG built in 1702 seconds, ncpu: 4, make -j4
> 
> So World+Kernel took somewhat under 6 hrs 45 min to build.
> 
> # ~/fbsd-based-on-what-freebsd-main.sh 
> merge-base: 7381bbee29df959e88ec59866cf2878263e7f3b2
> merge-base: CommitDate: 2021-03-12 20:29:42 +0000
> def0058cc690 (HEAD -> mm-src) mm-src snapshot for mm's patched build in git context.
> 7381bbee29df (freebsd/main, freebsd/HEAD, pure-src, main) cam: Run all XPT_ASYNC ccbs in a dedicated thread
> FreeBSD RPi4B 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT mm-src-n245445-def0058cc690 GENERIC-NODBG  arm64 aarch64 1400005 1400005
> 
> I've gotten very similar time frames from builds that used
> a ZFS file system on a USB3 SSD of the same type instead.

I forgot to mention that for the buildworld/buildkernel
both the running system and the built materials were
non-debug builds, despite the build being of main [so:
14].


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