Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161519AbWJVAd3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:33:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161521AbWJVAd2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:33:28 -0400 Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.101]:28523 "HELO smtp104.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161519AbWJVAd2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 20:33:28 -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=EB6AbqeG87EboIEUnJcT5t2Hw+f7tyHboC3LL8gVuA73m1h4NXHnkgdXXrW0BRYSanjpvCLTyN/oBW2lqkDvE9DRt1YZrpe/HGk9OkndlBgAhhJkHAFSXiGvb5XnNXZUYvOE7hXQxEAytn844J/yF0b+aohXc5W0CBnUi0Mqdl0= ; Message-ID: <453ABC7B.7030405@sbcglobal.net> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:34:03 -0500 From: Matthew Frost Reply-To: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen 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> In-Reply-To: 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: 1135 Lines: 31 (This time to everybody) Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. > I'll do some testing apples to apples-with-multithreaded-probing. Will return with numbers to see whether it's my subjective impression or really faster. > -Andi > Matt - 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/