linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

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Message-ID: <p734ptybk0z.fsf@verdi.suse.de>
Date:	21 Oct 2006 02:16:28 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	artusemrys@...global.net
Cc:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

Matthew Frost <artusemrys@...global.net> writes:

> 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.

Did you measure it?  Feelings and impressions tend to be unreliable.

-Andi
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