linux-kernel - RE: [patch]fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:26:01 +0800
From:	"Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: RE: [patch]fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to_rootfs()



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@...e.hu]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:45 PM
>To: Li, Shaohua
>Cc: lkml; Andrew Morton; Arjan van de Ven
>Subject: Re: [patch]fastboot: remove duplicate unpack_to_rootfs()
>
>
>* Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com> wrote:
>
>> we check if initrd is initramfs first and then do real unpack. The
>> check isn't required, we can directly do unpack. If initrd isn't
>> initramfs, we can remove garbage. In my laptop, this saves 0.1s boot
>> time. This penalizes non-initramfs case, but now initramfs is mostly
>> widely used.
Updated patch. Sorry for the attachment, my email client is broken.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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