From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
akpm@osdl.org, bunk@stusta.de, greg@kroah.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
pavel@ucw.cz, shemminger@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcall levels
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:13:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061030191307.GE10235@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87F87E8E-9434-4844-AA3F-ED850BEFAD29@mac.com>
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:47:53PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> Well, yes, but it would help some architectures. It would seem
> rather stupid to build a hardware limitation into a 64+ cpu system
> such that it cannot initialize or reconfigure multiple pieces of
> hardware at once. It also would help for more "mundane" systems such
> as my "Quad" G5 desktop which takes an appreciable time to probe all
> the various PCI, USB, SATA, and Firewire devices in the system.
Probing PCI devices really doesn't take that long. It's the extra stuff
the drivers do at ->probe that takes the time. And the stand-out
offender here is SCSI (and FC), which I'm working to fix. Firewire, USB
and SATA are somewhere intermediate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-30 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 23:50 [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcall levels Adam J. Richter
2006-10-28 23:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-30 14:23 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-30 14:38 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-30 15:00 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-10-30 15:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-30 15:28 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-10-30 18:56 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-30 14:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-30 18:47 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-10-30 19:13 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-10-31 5:39 ` Grant Grundler
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-29 20:38 Adam J. Richter
2006-10-28 8:23 Adam J. Richter
2006-10-28 9:22 ` Russell King
2006-10-28 12:10 ` Russell King
2006-10-28 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-23 23:22 Linux 2.6.19-rc3 Linus Torvalds
2006-10-26 22:45 ` 2.6.19-rc3: known unfixed regressions (v2) Adrian Bunk
2006-10-27 1:02 ` [RFC: 2.6.19 patch] let PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE depend on BROKEN Adrian Bunk
2006-10-27 1:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-27 1:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-27 2:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 17:07 ` Greg KH
2006-10-27 17:22 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-27 18:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-27 18:41 ` vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sections Andrew Morton
2006-10-27 18:42 ` [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcall levels Andrew Morton
2006-10-27 18:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-27 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-27 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-27 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-28 1:11 ` Greg KH
2006-10-28 1:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-27 22:59 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-27 23:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-28 5:09 ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-28 5:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-28 5:32 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-28 6:08 ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-28 20:48 ` Stefan Richter
2006-10-28 23:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-29 2:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-10-30 9:44 ` Cornelia Huck
2006-10-30 10:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-30 12:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-27 23:12 ` Olaf Hering
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