Today Hardy proposed was updated with a new kernel, which looks like it should close bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/240938 — I believe that means if you have an Intel Atom based PC it should boot about 3 seconds faster after this.
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#1 by Loïc Minier on June 23, 2008 - 9:26 am
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Hi,
This is only if you use the lpia architecture (not if you use i386 or amd64), but that’s about right. The reason it’s faster is because module insertions effectively insert code into the running kernel and require a special protection called the BKL (big kernel lock); when modules aren’t built as .ko but within the kernel, they can be initialized in parallel and this is faster.
Cheers,