On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 10:56 +0100, Richard Purdie via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 19:28 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> > Few years ago we switched to using mips32r2 tunings for qemumips
> > however
> > the default CPU emulation still remained 24Kf which is not optimal
> > for
> > mips32r2 ISA for qemu [1], therefore switch to recommended 32Kf for
> > CPU
> > emulation when running qemu in system mode
> > 
> > Boot time to console is ~1s faster with this setting, hopefully
> > this
> > should speed up qemumips in general
> > 
> > [1] 
> > https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-mips.html#preferred-cpu-models-for-mips-hosts
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf
> > b/meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf
> > index 31ad754483..4617c3c7b6 100644
> > --- a/meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf
> > +++ b/meta/conf/machine/qemumips.conf
> > @@ -12,3 +12,5 @@ KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE = "vmlinux.bin"
> >  SERIAL_CONSOLES ?= "115200;ttyS0 115200;ttyS1"
> >  
> >  QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-mips"
> > +
> > +QB_CPU = "-cpu 34Kf"
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I did run some tests locally, timing core-image-sato -c testimage
> before and after this change. It took 999s before, 1018s after but
> the difference looks like noise rather than any speedup or slowdown.

Another try at "after" got 986s so who knows :)

Cheers,

Richard

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