Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992786AbWJUCOH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:14:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992790AbWJUCOH (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:14:07 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:19093 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992786AbWJUCOE (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:14:04 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Greg KH Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:13:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net, Mariusz Kozlowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie , akpm@osdl.org References: <20061020015641.b4ed72e5.akpm@osdl.org> <20061021005014.GC12131@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20061021005014.GC12131@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610210413.40401.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 16 > Yeah, real numbers would be good to have. I have measured 7-8 seconds > off the boot on my workstation, and 2 seconds off the boot for my > laptop. All of the time saved seems to be due to slow SATA startup > times, and the machine is off initializing other things while that is > happening. So perhaps it would be a safer strategy to just run the SATA probing in the background and keep the rest serialized? -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/