The fast kernel headers tree

Posted Jan 3, 2022 8:49 UTC (Mon) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: The fast kernel headers tree by JoeBuck
Parent article: The fast kernel headers tree

Yes. Your kernel build is now too fast to wait for the coffee machine, so you need another justification to hang out there.

Posted Jan 3, 2022 17:12 UTC (Mon) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

Easy: just build the kernel with LTO and you'll have enough time to go get lunch ;-)

Posted Jan 4, 2022 21:21 UTC (Tue) by tsoni.lwn (subscriber, #139617) [Link]

fullLTO to be specific. ThinLTO is going to slow it down too but fullLTO makes it very slow.