Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

Andi Kleen
2006-10-21T00:16:43Z

Matthew Frost <artusemrys@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> 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.

Did you measure it? Feelings and impressions tend to be unreliable.

-Andi