Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:00:24 -0400 |
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On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:30, Greg KH wrote: > During the kernel summit, I was reminded by the wish by some people to > do device probing in parallel, so I created the following patch. It > offers up the ability for the driver core to create a new thread for > every driver<->device probe call. To enable this, the driver needs to > have the multithread_probe flag set to 1, otherwise the "traditional" > sequencial probe happens. >
Another option would be to have probing still serialized within a bus but serviced by a separate thread. The thread can die after let's say 1 minute inactivity timeout and respawned if needed.
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