From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
kernel@pengutronix.de
Subject: new ipdelay= option for faster netboot (was Re: New fast(?)-boot results on ARM)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:35:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A89DB15.6060101@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A89AC40.2040109@am.sony.com>
Tim Bird wrote:
> See the definitions of CONF_PRE_OPEN and CON_POST_OPEN
> in net/ipv4/ipconfig.c
>
> They are set to ridiculously long values. In my experience,
> you can cut them down considerably with no dangerous side
> effects (but I haven't asked the network guys about the
> possible downsides).
It turns out that others have seen this delay. Simon
Arlott recently posted a patch to make the delay avoidable
at boot time from the kernel command line.
See http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/31678/
-- Tim
=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
=============================
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-17 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 17:02 New fast(?)-boot results on ARM Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 18:19 ` Zan Lynx
2009-08-14 18:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-14 18:58 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 18:57 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 21:01 ` Linus Walleij
2009-08-14 21:15 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-14 21:35 ` Zan Lynx
2009-08-15 6:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-14 20:04 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-14 20:43 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-15 5:59 ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-15 10:35 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2009-08-18 10:06 ` Marco Stornelli
2009-08-18 10:21 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-18 10:34 ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-18 10:44 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-08-18 10:48 ` Alex Riesen
2009-08-18 10:53 ` Robert Schwebel
2009-09-04 16:16 ` Wolfram Sang
2009-09-09 14:33 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2009-09-10 0:03 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-17 19:15 ` Tim Bird
2009-08-17 22:35 ` Tim Bird [this message]
2009-08-18 1:03 ` new ipdelay= option for faster netboot David Miller
2009-08-18 1:24 ` Tim Bird
2009-08-18 1:27 ` David Miller
2009-08-18 1:40 ` Tim Bird
2009-08-18 1:56 ` David Miller
2009-08-19 11:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-08-18 4:56 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-08-18 5:00 ` David Miller
2009-08-18 1:31 ` Rick Jones
2009-08-18 2:45 ` david
2009-08-18 4:56 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-08-15 6:14 ` New fast(?)-boot results on ARM Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-18 14:06 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-08-18 15:31 ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-18 16:34 ` Marco Stornelli
2009-08-18 18:23 ` Tim Bird
2009-08-19 7:21 ` Sascha Hauer
2009-08-19 16:20 ` Dirk Behme
2009-08-20 8:57 ` Sascha Hauer
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