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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 11:05:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090104180515.GD2002@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090104092940.11943797@infradead.org>

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:29:40AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >From 2087b546abddced50fa73ea9a71b5a040ae1026e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 05:32:28 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
> 
> This patch makes part of the scsi probe (which is mostly device spin up and the
> partition scan) asynchronous. Only the part that runs after getting the device
> number allocated is asynchronous, ensuring that device numbering remains stable.

Is this really a big win?  Were you using the async scsi scan code
already?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-04 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-04 17:24 [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 17:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:33   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 18:40     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:49     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 19:05   ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 19:09     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 19:49       ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 19:52         ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-04 17:29 ` [PATCH 2/4] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:05   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2009-01-04 18:13     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:38       ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-01-04 18:44         ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 17:30 ` [PATCH 3/4] fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 17:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] fastboot: make ACPI bus drivers probe asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05  2:03   ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-05  1:58     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05  2:51       ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-05  2:51         ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05  5:30           ` Zhao Yakui
2009-01-04 18:16 ` [PATCH 0/4] Fastboot revisited: Asynchronous function calls Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 18:31   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 18:54     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 19:05       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 19:11         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 19:19           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 16:21         ` Alan Cox
2009-01-05 21:13           ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 21:21             ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 19:11       ` Andi Kleen
2009-01-04 19:46         ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-04 19:27   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-04 19:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-04 21:44   ` Alan Cox
2009-01-11 13:14   ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-05  6:01 ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-05  8:47   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-01-05 10:53   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-05 11:18     ` Nigel Cunningham
2009-01-07  2:41     ` Shaohua Li
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     [not found]         ` <fa.opIcflAvDANLuO5+8NjVCjt/94o@ifi.uio.no>
2009-01-04 18:55           ` [PATCH 2/4] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous Sitsofe Wheeler

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