linux-kernel - Re: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow

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Message-ID: <4A1D9EC2.4090602@hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 16:12:50 -0400
From:	jim owens <jowens@...com>
To:	"Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@...com>
CC:	Martin Knoblauch <knobi@...bisoft.de>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	"viro@...IV.linux.org.uk" <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	"rjw@...k.pl" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk" <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	"shemminger@...tta.com" <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow

Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
>>>  Finally, today I built the ccsii driver into the kernel. 
>> It was previously modularized and loaded from initrd. The 
>> second "sysfs" line went away. But does this make cciss 
>> guilty? It is now loaded about 2 seconds earlier in the boot 
>> sequence, which is a big change in timing I guess.
>>>  Enlighten me :-)
>> No idea what is going on, but since I saw your May 20 
>> message, I have been trying to wake up someone whose day job 
>> it should be to care about dl380s and smartarrays. :)
> 
> What? I know Martin has pinged me in the past, but I do not think it was about this issue. If there's multiple sysfs entries for cciss I can't explain that offhand. We do little to nothing for sysfs in the driver.
> Had something similiar happen recently where "/" changed to "!". Had do to with our nested directory structure, /dev/cciss/name vs /dev/name. But we did not make that change, either.

It was not you that I was trying to get to look at this...
but now that I have your attention :)

I did not think it pointed at cciss or the sysfs entry as
being the problem.  I was wondering more about platform probe
timing, the bios, and how each card firmware reacts given
what I thought the patch did.  I could be totally wrong about
that as I work at the filesystem level.

We have not seen the problem yet but we have different
proliants/smartarrays.

If you can try it on matching hardware, great, if not
then someone will eventually find a system to test it.

jim
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