Re: [gentoo-user] kernel compilation

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
> > 1.) I want to build a kernel, which is nearly monolithic.
> > Everything, which can be build inside of kernel is built inside of
> > kernel.
>
> FYI, although this is somewhat popular and seen as a performance
> enhancement to many, it all it really ends up meaning that you have
> to reboot the computer to control the parameters of various parts of
> the kernel (kernel / module parameters are often equivelent).

And while many *see* it as a performance enhancement, in reality it is 
little more than another ricer fantasy - on the same order as "-O9" in 
your CFLAGS.

Kernel modules are essentially self-modifying code that plugs itself 
into a running kernel to give the same code as if the module were 
actually monolithic. Performance increase = zero.

alan

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Alan McKinnon
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