CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO

[phoronix]

Phoronix: CachyOS Explores Optimizing Its Kernel With AutoFDO

CachyOS continues to be a fascinating Arch Linux based distribution that pushes the boundaries of out-of-the-box performance with a variety of patches, optimization techniques, specialized package builds, and more. One of the latest areas they are exploring is making use of AutoFDO for their kernel builds...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-AutoFDO-Kernel

[ms178]

Thank you, Peter and the CachyOS team for pushing the boundaries for performance optimizations on the Linux desktop! That's the spirit!

[reba]

Indeed, a big thank you from me, too. I outgrew my previous distribution and CachyOS was there when I needed it, my skills ready to bend it to my will It's a great distribution, very solid and dayum fast. Looking forward to all the new experiments. Take care

[SearingHeat]

I have been using the CachyOS kernel patches on my Fedora system for a long time now, and they work flawlessly most of the time. Thanks for providing these.

[Dukenukemx]

Indeed, a big thank you from me, too. I outgrew my previous distribution and CachyOS was there when I needed it, my skills ready to bend it to my will It's a great distribution, very solid and dayum fast. Looking forward to all the new experiments. Take care

I've been a die hard Linux Mint user for nearly a decade and I'm planning to switch. Installed CachyOS on my laptop and I just can't stop loving it. Maybe because I never used Arch before, but I love the AUR. Applications have been breaking in Ubuntu and of course Mint. I also love how smooth KDE Plasma is. Even the CachyOS forum seems friendly than Linux Mint's. Unlike Mint's forum where the first thing they do is point out that I installed something that didn't come with Mint, and even close down threads that I made to help people. Yea I think a guy called Dukenukemx is a sir.

[ptr1337]

This was for me a really funny and exciting journey

Generally, with the steps provided in the blog post everyone with supported CPUs should be able to do that. I hope to work on a native PKGBUILD integration but being right now blocked a bit. I hope this will be solved soonish.

Currently, when applying a AutoFDO profile in the PKGBUILD the packaging will fail, but ive reported it here:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

Also, as soon LLVM 19 drops Ill try to do also some benchmarks on propellor. Hopefully this will provide another bump

[reba]

debugging `strip` of `binutils`, this is crazy man

[skeevy420]

Indeed, a big thank you from me, too. I outgrew my previous distribution and CachyOS was there when I needed it, my skills ready to bend it to my will It's a great distribution, very solid and dayum fast. Looking forward to all the new experiments. Take care

I found CachyOS when I grew out of Arch. Between compiling all the usual things, all the time and trying out new things I read in the news here, I found myself keeping up with all of that just as much as I was using my PC. It's one thing when it's a package or two. When it's over 20 packages with various tweaks and patches it gets hectic to maintain.

I was at the point where I needed to consider source-based because what I was doing varied so much from upstream Arch that it made Arch too inflexible to use and utilize. That's when I came across CachyOS and found that they were doing every single tweak I was doing and the ones that I hadn't had the time or skill to get to yet.

That leads me to what I consider to be the worst part about CachyOS. It does so much that I'm neither feeling the need to keep up with as many things as I used to nor am I having to work on the nitty-gritty parts of my system. The more I use it the more I feel like my Linux using ability is slipping away. Ignorance via complacency

CachyOS is what I had always hoped Manjaro would become when I used it so many years ago.

[ptr1337]

Turns out it is a binutils issue. Issue has been reported here:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32340

[rabcor]

CachyOS is cool, i'm switching to it next time I install linux, probably when I buy my next PC, which is when I can get a laptop with at least 24gb vram