cks -- [c]ompile [k]ernal [s]tats

Simple BASH script for some benchmarking based on kcbench

News 2020-10-26

With a new version of kcbench (version 0.9) the script was updated today.

Todo

• start improvements
• Prio: check new version of kcbench 0.9
• different compiler
• more CPUs results
• newer Kernel
• any sugetions?

USAGE: cks $PATH2KERNEL

The scripts wites compile times from 1 to cores * 2. Please change steps if needed. Here are my stats based on the following evoirement:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X (32 cores, 64 threads)
• RAM: 128 GB DDR4-3200
• Storage: PCI4 NVE SSD 2 TB
• OS: Fedora Linux 31
• Compiler: gcc (GCC) 9.2.1 20190827
• kcbench Version 0.4.1
• Kernel: 5.4.6 from Kernel.org

Threads	Time in sec.
1	616.09
2	313.93
4	176.24
8	84.54
16	46.60
32	30.46
64	24.48

Some stats with newer kernel, gcc and kcbench

• CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X (32 cores, 64 threads)
• RAM: 128 GB DDR4-3200
• Storage: PCI4 NVE SSD 2 TB
• OS: Fedora Linux 32
• Compiler: gcc (GCC) 10.2.1 20201016
• kcbench Version 0.9
• Kernel: 5.9.1 from Kernel.org

Threads	Time in sec.
1	698.66
2	383.87
4	183.55
8	96.93
16	55.86
32	33.76
64	29.30

2023-11-01 New results

Some stats with another CPU and newer kernel, gcc and kcbench

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G (8 cores, 16 threads)
• RAM: 64 GB DDR4-3200
• Storage: PCI4 NVE SSD 1 TB
• OS: Fedora Linux 39 beta
• Compiler: gcc (GCC) 13.2.1 20230918
• kcbench Version 0.9.7
• Kernel: 6.6 from Kernel.org

Threads	Time in sec.
1	994.70
2	517.79
4	276.83
8	157.33
16	130.71