From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:17:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496794AD.6040403@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090105201118.5bfa1e36@infradead.org>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>From 19617cfb1840abc69cc2fe74433007fc1daa1cb7 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.
..
Will this burn up the PSUs in loaded server boxes,
due to all drives spinning-up simultaneously now?
Just curious.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090105200959.04a626ac@infradead.org>
2009-01-06 4:10 ` [PATCH 1/6] fastboot: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-06 4:25 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-06 4:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-06 13:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-14 5:32 ` Zhang Rui
2009-01-14 9:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-15 5:55 ` Zhang Rui
2009-01-06 4:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-09 18:17 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-01-06 4:12 ` [PATCH 3/6] fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-07 9:12 ` Bert Wesarg
2009-01-06 4:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] fastboot: make ACPI bus drivers probe asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-07 14:12 ` Yong Wang
2009-01-07 17:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-06 4:13 ` [PATCH 5/6] bootchart: improve output Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-06 4:13 ` [PATCH 6/6] fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async Arjan van de Ven
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