linux-kernel - Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace)

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612081737510.1665@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Fri, 8 Dec 2006 17:38:47 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@...l.net>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org
Subject: Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace)

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> I Have A Great Idea(tm) and would like to describe it concisely to see 
> if anyone likes it and hopefully hasn't thought of it before so i'm not 
> consuming people's time. The idea is: parallel device initialisation of 
> built-in modules, to reduce kernel boot time.

Have you looked at CONFIG_PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE which is already present 
in recent kernels?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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