Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:20:14 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fastboot: Create a "asynchronous" initlevel
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:11:37 -0700
Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote: 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 ..
> 

btw it's also about learning to crawl before learning to walk, before
learning to run. THis stuff is tricky and there are many hidden
problems; I rather start SIMPLE and understandably right, I don't want
to go "full parallel" now (or maybe ever, no idea, we need to learn
from this step first). Btw: I suspect the biggest gain comes from the
first step or two.. after that you soon get diminishing returns...


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