From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anton Blanchard Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] ipr: Add support for async scanning to speed up boot Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:04:08 +1000 Message-ID: <20140827140408.4872f089@kryten> References: <53D6B254.1090503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:53452 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801AbaH0EEO (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:04:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <53D6B254.1090503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Brian King Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi , Wendy Xiong Hi Brian, > Switch device scanning logic in the ipr driver to use > the async scan API. This speeds up boot times, particularly > on large systems. > > Signed-off-by: Brian King This reduces the boot time on my box by over 3 seconds. I'm sure it reduces it much more after your subsequent kexec patch is applied. Tested-by: Anton Blanchard Anton