linux-kernel - Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: parallel boot device initialisation (kernel-space not userspace)

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Message-ID: <457C7D8D.7090703@f2s.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:35:09 +0000
From:	Ian Molton <spyro@....com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@...l.net>,
	kernel-discuss@...dhelds.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
Subject: Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: parallel boot device initialisation	(kernel-space
 not userspace)

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> Your thought to pick one subsystem and implement multithreaded probing is
> exactly the way to go. If the subsystem is already properly using the
> driver core, part of what's needed is already in place. You "merely" have
> to look out for proper access to shared resources, and maybe synchronization
> of the final step in initialization... (Like in case of the SCSI subsystem.
> People usually want to wait for all scanning threads to finish before the
> system proceeds to mount filesystems.)

Would love to see this happen to platform devices...

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