Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:23:30 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] udev enhancements to use kernel event queue |
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:03:19AM -0700, Steven Dake wrote: > >Aside from that, what exactly are you trying to do? > >You are not solving the fundamental device node reuse race, > >yet you are making necessary a further demon. > > > > > For device enumeration, I see a daemon as necessary. The main goal of > this work is to solve the out-of-order execution of sbin/hotplug and > improve performance of the system during device enumeration with > significant (200 disks, 4 partitions each) amounts of devices. Boot > time with this scheme appears, in my rudimentary tests, to be faster on > the order of 1-2 seconds for bootup for the case of just 12 disks. I > would imagine 200 disks (which I don't have a good way to test, as I > don't have 200 disks:) would provide better speed gains during bootup. > This compares greg's original udev to this patched udev binary.
You're also using a 500k dynamically linked binary. Please don't do that for testing/real life. Use the 6k udev binary for you tests...
thanks,
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