linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

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Date:	Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:55:00 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
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

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 04:13:40AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > 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? 

That would work for my machines, but what about everyone else?  SCSI
should also be faster, and perhaps other PCI drivers that take a while
in initialization.

Anyway, it does help some people out.

thanks,

greg k-h
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