Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752856AbYGSE66 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:58:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751232AbYGSE6v (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:58:51 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:58056 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751071AbYGSE6u (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:58:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:58:47 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Daniel Walker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fastboot: Create a "asynchronous" initlevel Message-ID: <20080718215847.3db0dc9e@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1216440697.3978.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080718151524.5ef9e29b@infradead.org> <20080718151608.46dc17c0@infradead.org> <1216430540.3978.137.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080718204406.7426e8fe@infradead.org> <1216440697.3978.142.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1349 Lines: 36 On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:11:37 -0700 Daniel Walker wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 20:44 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:22:20 -0700 > > Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 15:16 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > +static void __init do_initcalls(void) > > > > +{ > > > > + initcall_t *call; > > > > + static DECLARE_WORK(async_work, do_async_initcalls); > > > > + int phase = 0; /* 0 = levels 0 - 6, 1 = level 6a, 2 = > > > > after level 6a */ > > > > + > > > > + async_init_wq = > > > > create_singlethread_workqueue("kasyncinit"); + > > > > > > Could you spawning one thread per cpu, and queuing the work > > > evenly? > > > > not without loosing the ordering..... > > > > I don't think there is any expectation for any given initcall to have > a special ordering .. There is an ordering expectation for say > initcall 6 runs before 6a , but not within the initcall .. > that's not right.. device numbering very highly depends on that. the specified ordering is makefile link order. -- 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/