linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

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Date:	Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:13:40 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	artusemrys@...global.net,
	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2


> Yeah, real numbers would be good to have.  I have measured 7-8 seconds
> off the boot on my workstation, and 2 seconds off the boot for my
> laptop.  All of the time saved seems to be due to slow SATA startup
> times, and the machine is off initializing other things while that is
> happening.

So perhaps it would be a safer strategy to just run the SATA probing in the
background and keep the rest serialized? 

-Andi
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