linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] module, kbuild: Faster boot with custom kernel.

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Message-ID: <20090306074548.36ed2f9f@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:45:48 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andreas Robinson <andr345@...il.com>
Cc:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, sam@...nborg.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] module, kbuild: Faster boot with custom kernel.

On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:15:43 +0100
Andreas Robinson <andr345@...il.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 16:18 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:47:10 +0100
> > Andreas Robinson <andr345@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > the only thing I can say (the graphs are a bit complex to read) is
> > that you are loading a LOT of very expensive modules that bring you
> > no functionality.
> 
> Well, yes. It is the generic Ubuntu kernel booting in all its bloaty
> glory. :) But this is what most users are stuck with. The distro
> vendors won't change their ways because they want their stuff to run
> on anything.

the problem is that you are also having things that just don't make
sense; even for the generalized case...

but I guess that is for Ubuntu to resolve. I don't see the machines I
run (with Fedora) exhibit this same issue; while there are a bunch of
modules, none of the ones that are expensive-and-useless in your charts
are there.

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