Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:34:03 -0500 | From | Matthew Frost <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 |
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(This time to everybody) Andi Kleen wrote: > Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net> writes: > >> Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>> Ow. Multithreaded probing was probably a bt ambitious, given the current >>> status of kernel startup.. >>> >>> Greg, does it actually speed anything up or anything else good? >>> >> I'm on a x86 (P4) hi-mem machine, plenty of onboard PCI (audio, LAN, bonus IDE >> controller, etc.), and it has sped up my boot process. Between the USB and PCI >> multithread probing, my dmesg is a bit out of order from its ordinary sequence, >> but the only things that stall it now are my MD-RAID partitions getting set up. > > Did you measure it? Feelings and impressions tend to be unreliable. >
I'll do some testing apples to apples-with-multithreaded-probing. Will return with numbers to see whether it's my subjective impression or really faster.
> -Andi >
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