Re: [PATCH 1/2] async: async device driver probing

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 08:40:43AM +0000, 吴章金 wrote:
> Hi, Greg
> 
> These two patches aim to thread the initcalls(only probes here) for SMP
> systems. to simplify the upgrade of Linux for Android smartphones, the modules
> are built into the Linux kernel image, and hence the initcalls are called in
> serial order, to speedup the booting, benefit from SMP, thread these initcalls
> may parallel the probings.
> 
> and I rechecked the deferred probing, seems it solves the problem of getting
> devices initialized in the right order, the probing will be threaded only if
> the probe fails with the -EPROBE_DEFER. it doesn't provide any mechanism to
> thread a probe explicitly.

It's up to the bus to do threaded probing, but watch out, that is almost
never the bottleneck in your boot process (hint, in Android, booting the
kernel is almost not even in the range that can be measured overall).
There are so many other things that Android does at boot time that could
be worked on instead of worrying about this :)

good luck,

greg k-h