linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing

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Message-ID: <44C69819.8080908@superbug.co.uk>
Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:15:53 +0100
From:	James Courtier-Dutton <James@...erbug.co.uk>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing

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.
> 
> Note that this patch does not actually enable the threaded probe for any
> busses, as that's very dangerous at this point in time, without the
> different bus authors trying it out and verifying that it does work
> properly.
> 
> I did enable this for both USB and PCI and shaved .4 seconds off of the
> boot time of my tiny little single processor laptop.  The savings of my
> 4-way workstation is much greater, but things start to happen so fast we
> miss the root disk, as init starts before the disks are finished being
> initialized.  I have some hacks to work around this right now, but I'll
> hold off on posting them before I make sure they work properly (breaking
> booting of people's machines isn't the best way to get them to accept
> new features...)
> 
> Anyway, have fun playing around with this if you want, I'll be adding
> this to the next -mm, but you will have to enable the bit on your own if
> you want to see any speedups.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 

What happens about the logging?
Surely one would want the output from one probe to be output into the
log as a block, and not mix the output from multiple simultaneous probes.

James
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