Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992613AbWJTWgs (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:36:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992708AbWJTWgs (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:36:48 -0400 Received: from smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.100]:32869 "HELO smtp105.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S2992613AbWJTWgq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:36:46 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=fxJpqOlbtrYL/hSVvAkMUEzC0akK9vyk2GMisHyT6rl1xrCPgF1UlvPoGZ2SKkZiND6sia7zjqwWQSmDVbgu0vJ4vp0LfeVwgF/jKH2RkoJL3YteDrXt847+rHFWWB9zqUwyB2Rxk2F1ojZ6Ddppw7JNFTLcQkCCXuPUE6k4G+4= ; Message-ID: <45394F97.9010401@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:37:11 -0500 From: Matthew Frost Reply-To: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Mariusz Kozlowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie , Greg KH Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 References: <20061020015641.b4ed72e5.akpm@osdl.org> <200610201339.49190.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <20061020091901.71a473e9.akpm@osdl.org> <200610201854.43893.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <20061020102520.67b8c2ab.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061020102520.67b8c2ab.akpm@osdl.org> 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: 928 Lines: 23 Andrew Morton wrote: > Ow. Multithreaded probing was probably a bt ambitious, given the current > status of kernel startup.. > > Greg, does it actually speed anything up or anything else good? > I'm on a x86 (P4) hi-mem machine, plenty of onboard PCI (audio, LAN, bonus IDE controller, etc.), and it has sped up my boot process. Between the USB and PCI multithread probing, my dmesg is a bit out of order from its ordinary sequence, but the only things that stall it now are my MD-RAID partitions getting set up. As far as my mileage, it does speed up performance, but I'm bog-standard and boring as far as x86 hardware goes. Obviously, not for everybody. Thanks! Matt Frost - 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/