From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>,
Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] skip initramfs check
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:30:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511210130.55774.rob@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051117141432.GD9753@logos.cnet>
On Thursday 17 November 2005 08:14, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The initramfs check at populate_rootfs() can consume significant time
> (several seconds) on slow/embedded platforms, since it has to decompress
> the image.
Query: is the problem that a big initramfs image is being unpacked more than
once, or is unpacking an empty initramfs image (134 bytes) causing a
significant delay?
I'm fairly certain that back in 1990 I could unzip 134 bytes on my 33 mhz 386
running dos in a fraction of a second. What's the use case here?
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-21 8:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-17 14:14 [PATCH] skip initramfs check Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-17 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-21 7:30 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2005-11-21 6:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-11-21 15:04 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 15:50 ` Matt Mackall
2005-11-21 10:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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