Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751413AbWJUEKF (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:10:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751419AbWJUEKF (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:10:05 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:17379 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751413AbWJUEKD (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:10:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:55:00 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Andi Kleen Cc: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net, Mariusz Kozlowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Airlie , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 Message-ID: <20061021035500.GB10522@kroah.com> References: <20061020015641.b4ed72e5.akpm@osdl.org> <20061021005014.GC12131@kroah.com> <200610210413.40401.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610210413.40401.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 25 On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 04:13:40AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > 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? That would work for my machines, but what about everyone else? SCSI should also be faster, and perhaps other PCI drivers that take a while in initialization. Anyway, it does help some people out. thanks, greg k-h - 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/