Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261750AbVBOPQY (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:16:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261747AbVBOPQX (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:16:23 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46246 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261750AbVBOPQH (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:16:07 -0500 Message-ID: <4212121B.807@suse.de> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:15:39 +0100 From: Stefan Seyfried User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee Revell Cc: Prakash Punnoor , Paolo Ciarrocchi , Patrick McFarland , linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release References: <20050211004033.GA26624@suse.de> <420C054B.1070502@downeast.net> <20050211011609.GA27176@suse.de> <1108354011.25912.43.camel@krustophenia.net> <4d8e3fd305021400323fa01fff@mail.gmail.com> <42106685.40307@arcor.de> <1108422240.28902.11.camel@krustophenia.net> <20050214231605.GA13969@suse.de> <1108423715.32293.2.camel@krustophenia.net> In-Reply-To: <1108423715.32293.2.camel@krustophenia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 22 Lee Revell wrote: > That init scripts with no interdependencies are run sequentially rather > than in parallel. > > There was an article from IBM a while back with a neat hack that used a > parallel make to fire off groups of init scripts in parallel. I would > expect more interest in this from the distros. You can boot a SUSE 9.2 with parallel init scripts (default AFAIR), sequential init scripts and with a Makefile based solution. "Normal" (not Makefile based) parallel booting is possible much longer on SUSE, at least since 9.0 IIRC. And guess what? "Parallel booting" alone, regardless of the mechanism does not make much of a difference for the boot time. Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/