> Why would you compile the kernel without optimization? I would like to see how big an effect finally is in such a build configuration after specific source code adjustments. > There's many places in the kernel that WILL NOT BUILD without optimization. I did not really know this detail so far. I noticed that the optimised build variants worked during my test comparisons. > In fact, we do a lot of tricks to make sure that things work the way > we expect it to, because we add broken code that only gets compiled out > when gcc optimizes the code the way we expect it to be, > and the kernel build will break otherwise. Thanks for your information. Can the software areas distinguished where such special handling matters? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html