How can I use -O3 compiler optimization flag?

2017-09-26 Thread Ketan Singh
I am building a kernel for arm64 and I want to add -O3 kernel optimization flag to check if this can give any performance improvement. Someone already made a path to do this https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch and reported little improvement in some applications but that patch is only for

Re: Reviews on linux-kernel

2017-09-26 Thread Christoph Böhmwalder
That settles my question. Thank you for taking the time and replying so very quickly Greg! -- Regards, Christoph signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org

Re: Reviews on linux-kernel

2017-09-26 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 09:19:15AM +0200, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's a question that the various "how to help" documents about the > linux-kernel mailing list couldn't help me answer: > > Is anyone "allowed" to review patches on the mailing list? Yes, please do so. > Is

Reviews on linux-kernel

2017-09-26 Thread Christoph Böhmwalder
Hi all, Here's a question that the various "how to help" documents about the linux-kernel mailing list couldn't help me answer: Is anyone "allowed" to review patches on the mailing list? Is it considered appropriate for any random person to review a change and approve/disapprove of it (given, of