Comment 51 for bug 1926938

Thanks to this "bug", yes it IS a"bug"; thousands of ubuntu users have learnt to compile mainline kernels!

I never had to compile a linux kernel until this happened to 5.11.17+! I've always just installed whatever the mainline kernel team built.

The silver lining here is that my ivy-bridge servers are all now running way more efficient and faster with aggressive optimisations like what I posted previously on this thread! Thus delaying the need to replace them all for a few more years yet!

Recently (yesterday) I ditched the GNU build utils and gcc/g++ and switched to llvm-12, clang-12, and ld.lld-12 and enabled thin-LTO along with the same aggressive optimisations I posted previously in my KCFLAGS and KCPPFLAGS; and now it is even more snappier!

I would never have learnt how to do all of the above if it weren't for this "bug", and honestly don't see myself ever using the ubuntu mainline kernels ever again except for copying their ".config" file to prime my builds and ensure hardwares are enabled.

Thank you bug; all my servers are way faster now!

Now I itch to compile even more stuff that I use daily that's open source so I can aggressively optimise them and squeeze more juice out of my setup!