linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

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Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:37:11 -0500
From:	Matthew Frost <artusemrys@...global.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

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.

As far as my mileage, it does speed up performance, but I'm bog-standard and
boring as far as x86 hardware goes.  Obviously, not for everybody.

Thanks!
Matt Frost
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