Re: How to compile kernel for i686 instead of i386?

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:06:10AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:28:11PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > Boot time may serve as a rough measure of kernel performance since it is
> > the kernel that acts the most at that time.
> 
> But kernel does unusual things during boot, like wait for i2c devices to
> respond identifying your ram modules, or similar for disks. This never
> happens again later, and is usualy not bound by kernel performance, but
> devices.

Are any of those waits tweakable?

Wonder why Linux does these things faster. May be it parallelizes them?

Mayuresh