From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:00:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607251800.25328.dtor@insightbb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060725203028.GA1270@kroah.com>
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:30, Greg KH wrote:
> During the kernel summit, I was reminded by the wish by some people to
> do device probing in parallel, so I created the following patch. It
> offers up the ability for the driver core to create a new thread for
> every driver<->device probe call. To enable this, the driver needs to
> have the multithread_probe flag set to 1, otherwise the "traditional"
> sequencial probe happens.
>
Another option would be to have probing still serialized within a bus but
serviced by a separate thread. The thread can die after let's say 1 minute
inactivity timeout and respawned if needed.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-25 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-25 20:30 [RFC PATCH] Multi-threaded device probing Greg KH
2006-07-25 21:09 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-07-25 21:27 ` Greg KH
2006-07-25 21:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-25 22:00 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-07-26 7:28 ` Greg KH
2006-07-25 22:15 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-07-26 0:08 ` Stefan Richter
2006-07-26 7:27 ` Greg KH
2006-07-26 7:24 ` Greg KH
2006-07-25 22:57 ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-07-26 7:22 ` Greg KH
2006-07-26 0:34 ` Stefan Richter
2006-07-26 7:31 ` Greg KH
2006-07-26 11:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-26 16:16 ` Greg KH
2006-07-26 16:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-26 16:46 ` Greg KH
2006-07-27 0:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-27 0:20 ` Greg KH
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