[OpenWrt-Devel] Toolchain issue: Significant decrease in performance of binaries produced by Barrier Breaker relative to Attitude Adjustment

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2014-08-30 18:45, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> On 08/30/2014 06:42 PM, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've noticed that the code produced by Barrier Breaker's toolchain
>> sometimes has significantly worse performance that that built by
>> Attitude Adjustment.
>> 
>> I can see this extremely with the VPN tool "fastd" developed and
>> maintained by me: On the same Barrier Breaker system, a binary built by
>> the default Barrier Breaker toolchain (GCC 4.8-linaro) gets about 35%
>> less throughput than one built with Attitude Adjustment (GCC
>> 4.6-linaro). With the 4.6-linaro toolchain of Barrier Breaker, I still
>> get 20% worse performance than with the 4.6-linaro of Attitude Adjustment.
>> 
>> Do you have any suggestions what I can do to solve or analyze the issue?
>> Any compiler flags I should try fiddling with? Optimizing with -Os vs.
>> -O3 doesn't seem to make a difference.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Matthias
>> 
> 
> I forgot to tell that this is on ar71xx.
Did you try disabling mips16 support for fastd?

PKG_USE_MIPS16:=0

- Felix
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