Re: Deferred probe times

[Federico Giovanardi <federico@giovanardi.dev>]

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Well, the comment about the giant block was not a complaint, of course.

With both patches, I used to get the attached image, so the 
deferred_probe slot it's separated into its constituents.


Thanks

Federico


On 2025-05-24 02:16, Bird, Tim wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Federico Giovanardi <federico@giovanardi.dev>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was poking around the boot data database while I noticed that the
>> deferred_probe initicalls are considered as a giant block;
> 
> Hmm.  I didn't think anyone was looking at this data besides myself.
> The site is really still under construction, so I apologize for missing
> and mis-formatted data.  But thanks for looking at
> the data and finding something that needs attention upstream!!
> 
>> 
>> There is a patch that looks never went upstream to measure them:
>> https://lkml.iu.edu/1707.3/02349.html
> 
> Wow, that's interesting.  Here's the lore link for this thread:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170725233159.89543-1-toddpoynor@google.com/#t
> 
> It doesn't look like there were (after discussion) objections to 
> accepting upstream.
> I wonder what happened.
> 
> ...
> It looks like it was superceded by this patch:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180620023903.242758-1-toddpoynor@gmail.com/
> which may provide some of the data necessary.
> 
> The thing missing there are some (IMHO) better name lookups for the 
> probe function.
> I wrote a patch for that, but didn't persist in trying to upstream it.  
> Maybe I should
> dust that off and send it again.
> 
>> 
>> And another one from me to print the result in the .svg.
>> 
>> 
>> Have a nice day
>> Federico

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