meta-intel/conf/machine/include/tune-skylake.inc
Naveen Saini 04510bfabd conf: add new machine intel-skylake-64
Add 64-bit new machine (intel-skylake-64) with -march=skylake
and avx2 instruction-set set up.

We do see a qemu-usermode failure at build time, on setup of
avx2 instruction-set as QEMU does not support AVX instruction
set.

Check this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1818075

So to bypass this issue disabling qemu-usermode for intel-skylake-64
machine.

Due to above limitation and in order to not affecting existing
machines, this new machine is being proposed to add.

A quick performance comparision between intel-corei7-64 vs intel-skylake-64 machines

Measurements are in time, taken by the benchmark tests. Less is better.

Test/Benchmark			intel-corei7-64		intel-skylake-64

(1) CppPerformanceBenchmarks (Test: Math Library)
				(1st) 5m 15.70s		4m 36.39s
				(2nd) 5m 16.37s		4m 36.51s
				(3rd) 5m 15.54s		4m 37.80s
CppPerformanceBenchmarks is a set of C++ compiler performance benchmarks.

(2) AOBench
				(1st) 0m 35.07s		0m 28.74s
				(2nd) 0m 34.90s		0m 28.72s
				(3rd) 0m 34.85s		0m 28.89s
AOBench is a lightweight ambient occlusion renderer, written in C. The
test profile is using a size of 2048 x 2048.

(3) C-Ray
				(1st) 320 seconds	232 seconds
				(2nd) 320 seconds	232 seconds
				(3rd) 321 seconds	232 seconds
C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance.

For this patch, 'bitbake world' gets successfully built with latest poky master.

Signed-off-by: Naveen Saini <naveen.kumar.saini@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anuj Mittal <anuj.mittal@intel.com>
2019-08-21 12:30:01 +08:00

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# Settings for the GCC(1) cpu-type "skylake":
#
# Intel Skylake CPU with 64-bit extensions, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1,
# SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2 and POPCNT instruction set support.
#
# This tune is recommended for Intel Skylake CPU (and beyond).
#
DEFAULTTUNE ?= "skylake-64"
# Include the previous tune to pull in PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS
require conf/machine/include/tune-core2.inc
# Extra tune features
TUNEVALID[skylake] = "Enable skylake specific processor optimizations"
TUNE_CCARGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('TUNE_FEATURES', 'skylake', ' -march=skylake -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse -mavx2', '', d)}"
# Extra tune selections
AVAILTUNES += "skylake-64"
TUNE_FEATURES_tune-skylake-64 = "${TUNE_FEATURES_tune-x86-64} skylake"
BASE_LIB_tune-skylake-64 = "lib64"
TUNE_PKGARCH_tune-skylake-64 = "skylake-64"
PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-skylake-64 = "${PACKAGE_EXTRA_ARCHS_tune-core2-64} skylake-64"
QEMU_EXTRAOPTIONS_skylake-64 = " -cpu Skylake-Client"
# Disable QEMU user
MACHINE_FEATURES_remove = "qemu-usermode"