Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932386AbZGPOgU (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:36:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932307AbZGPOgT (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:36:19 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f228.google.com ([209.85.218.228]:37110 "EHLO mail-bw0-f228.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932257AbZGPOgS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:36:18 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=N3YUTz3p/KVRBG0Mwk5UmZn+1rl7EghRSnLgWogObfBSM65E8hkNy3VpwIpSWAB0UZ kQimQglRvJcQpznJTYC6OgeYM8k0ttv/rcZErKFdsf/VeYGgY4jnEfq6gB6HKlhqG2Do 0WuborETvbTDmmxanU6t+ZaO1PO/DjjYR7V2Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A5F2EEC.8010508@linux.intel.com> References: <1247643512.26272.74.camel@rzhang-dt> <87ocrm6xeq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <1247710483.26272.170.camel@rzhang-dt> <20090716114020.GA11928@khazad-dum.debian.net> <4A5F2EEC.8010508@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:36:17 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] device async action mechanism From: Fabio Comolli To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Zhang Rui , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-pm , linux-acpi , Len Brown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1478 Lines: 34 On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> >> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Zhang Rui wrote: >>> >>> the kernel device suspend time is reduced from 3.2s to 2.8s after >>> applying this patch set in my test box. >> >> It will give even a bigger boot time saving on ThinkPads, where there is a >> Synaptics (or ALPS if you are unlucky) touchpad with the trackpoint behind >> it... it takes about 2s to init both devices here.  That's two seconds of >> boot time you can shove off if it is being initialized assyncronously :-) >> > > that's a different problem that I don't think this will solve; as long > as you keep the boot of the kernel wait for all async actions, you're going > to hit that wait. In Moblin we have a (bad) patch to not do the wait, > at some point we need to figure how to get a mainline-able patch.... > -- Is it possible for you to post that patch (or point to a website hosting it)? > 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/ > -- 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/