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From: jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com (Jason Gunthorpe)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] Defining schemas for Device Tree
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:29:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729172952.GA1884@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130729172339.GT29916@titan.lakedaemon.net>

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 01:23:39PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:

> true, the answer to this problem may be to create a depgraph of the
> nodes based on phandles and child status, then init.  However, if the
> goal is to accelerate boot times, then that should not be calculated
> during each boot, especially since it doesn't likely change from boot to
> boot.

That seems like a really smart idea. dtc could store the startup-order
and dependencies in the dtb someplace and the kernel can just run
through that. Using a combination of declaration order and
topo-phandle sorting would probably cover all cases???

Jason

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>,
	Domenico Andreoli <cavokz@gmail.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	"ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" 
	<ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jonsmirl@gmail.com" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] Defining schemas for Device Tree
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 11:29:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729172952.GA1884@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130729172339.GT29916@titan.lakedaemon.net>

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 01:23:39PM -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:

> true, the answer to this problem may be to create a depgraph of the
> nodes based on phandles and child status, then init.  However, if the
> goal is to accelerate boot times, then that should not be calculated
> during each boot, especially since it doesn't likely change from boot to
> boot.

That seems like a really smart idea. dtc could store the startup-order
and dependencies in the dtb someplace and the kernel can just run
through that. Using a combination of declaration order and
topo-phandle sorting would probably cover all cases???

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-29 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-29  0:21 Defining schemas for Device Tree Tomasz Figa
2013-07-29  1:30 ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-29  8:27   ` David Woodhouse
2013-07-29  8:40   ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-29 15:01 ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 16:49   ` Dave Martin
2013-07-29 17:11     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-07-29 17:23     ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 17:23       ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 17:29       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2013-07-29 17:29         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-07-29 19:48       ` Mark Brown
2013-07-29 19:48         ` Mark Brown
2013-07-29 22:29       ` David Gibson
2013-07-29 22:29         ` David Gibson
2013-07-29 22:48         ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 22:48           ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 23:45           ` David Gibson
2013-07-29 23:45             ` David Gibson
2013-07-30 12:12             ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-30 12:12               ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-30  0:41       ` David Lang
2013-07-30  0:41         ` David Lang
2013-07-30  0:49         ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30  0:49           ` jonsmirl
2013-07-30  1:50       ` David Gibson
2013-07-30  1:50         ` David Gibson
2013-07-30 12:17         ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-30 12:17           ` Jason Cooper
2013-07-29 18:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-07-29 22:26   ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-29 21:47 ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-29 22:20   ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-30  0:02     ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-29 22:23   ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-29 22:45     ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-30  0:30       ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30 10:25         ` Mark Brown
2013-07-30 13:14           ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30 17:19             ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-30 17:29               ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30 17:34                 ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-30 17:45                   ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30 17:49                     ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-30 18:03                       ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30 18:04                         ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30 18:25                           ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-30 18:28                             ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-31  7:01                               ` Tony Lindgren
2013-08-01 20:04                               ` Matt Sealey
2013-07-30 18:26                           ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30 20:57                 ` Mark Brown
2013-07-30 22:19                   ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-30 23:03                     ` Mark Brown
2013-07-30 23:23                       ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-31 11:34                         ` Mark Brown
2013-07-31 12:01                           ` jonsmirl at gmail.com
2013-07-31 12:21                             ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-31 16:29                               ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Thomas Petazzoni
2013-07-31 16:29                                 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-07-31 16:41                               ` Sascha Hauer
2013-07-31 16:59                           ` Dave Martin
2013-07-31 18:59                             ` Mark Brown
2013-08-01 14:29                               ` Dave Martin
2013-07-31 19:57                         ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-31 20:47                         ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-31 23:04                           ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-30 22:16 ` Tomasz Figa
2013-07-30 22:26   ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-30 22:27   ` jonsmirl at gmail.com

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