linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot

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Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2009 05:57:18 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...e.hu, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up
 kernel boot

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:25:14 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:10:41 -0800 Arjan van de Ven
> <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> >  kernel/async.c         |  307
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Am still wondering if this is unacceptably duplicative of dhowells's
> slow-work infrastructure: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/20/193

ok having looked at it a lot more; I can add priorities to the async
function calls, at which point they are a superset to the slow-work
infrastructure basically. I'll need to check with David to make 10)%
sure the solution I have in mind will work for him, but I suspect it
will.


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