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

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Date:	Fri, 8 Dec 2006 17:42:21 +0000
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@...l.net>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org
Subject: Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace)

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 05:38:47PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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?
 
  ah _ha_.  thank you!

 honestly? no - because the small devices i'm compiling for don't have a
 pci bus, ha ha :)

 but seriously - thank you for pointing that out, i'll definitely
 investigate it.

 l.

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