Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161154AbWJUAQn (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:16:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161087AbWJUAQn (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:16:43 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:10889 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992747AbWJUAQm (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:16:42 -0400 To: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie , Greg KH , akpm@osdl.org 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> <45394F97.9010401@sbcglobal.net> From: Andi Kleen Date: 21 Oct 2006 02:16:28 +0200 In-Reply-To: <45394F97.9010401@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 914 Lines: 18 Matthew Frost writes: > 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. Did you measure it? Feelings and impressions tend to be unreliable. -Andi - 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/