Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] fastboot: Create a "asynchronous" initlevel
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
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On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 22:20 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> 
> 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...
> 

Ok .. I'm not trying to rush you .. With that said, the increased number
of threads seems like a natural direction to take.. I would assume the
returns would diminish depending on the number of threads per the
hardware.. For instance , your addition of one thread might even harm
the boot time on some single core embedded systems ..

Daniel

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