Re: [PATCH] Mention Intel Atom in Kconfig.cpu

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Oct 13 2008 - 09:47:04 EST


On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:30:14AM -0400, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:30:51 +0200
> Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Core2 instruction set with tune=generic is still the best to set.
> >
> > Not sure that is true. These option are mostly for the compiler.
>
> exactly, and our benchmarks show that tune=generic is best right now

So it doesn't matter as long as you set X86_GENERIC (and
CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE)

It would probably make sense to add a setting for those.

-Andi

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