Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

Matthew Frost
2006-10-20T22:36:48Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Ow. Multithreaded probing was probably a bt ambitious, given the current
> status of kernel startup..
>
> Greg, does it actually speed anything up or anything else good?
>

I'm on a x86 (P4) hi-mem machine, plenty of onboard PCI (audio, LAN, bonus IDE
controller, etc.), and it has sped up my boot process. Between the USB and PCI
multithread probing, my dmesg is a bit out of order from its ordinary sequence,
but the only things that stall it now are my MD-RAID partitions getting set up.

As far as my mileage, it does speed up performance, but I'm bog-standard and
boring as far as x86 hardware goes. Obviously, not for everybody.

Thanks!
Matt Frost