Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:55:00 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 |
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On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 04:13:40AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Yeah, real numbers would be good to have. I have measured 7-8 seconds > > off the boot on my workstation, and 2 seconds off the boot for my > > laptop. All of the time saved seems to be due to slow SATA startup > > times, and the machine is off initializing other things while that is > > happening. > > So perhaps it would be a safer strategy to just run the SATA probing in the > background and keep the rest serialized?
That would work for my machines, but what about everyone else? SCSI should also be faster, and perhaps other PCI drivers that take a while in initialization.
Anyway, it does help some people out.
thanks,
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