Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2

Greg KH
2006-10-21T04:10:05Z

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 04:13:40AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Yeah, real numbers would be good to have. I have measured 7-8 seconds
> > off the boot on my workstation, and 2 seconds off the boot for my
> > laptop. All of the time saved seems to be due to slow SATA startup
> > times, and the machine is off initializing other things while that is
> > happening.
>
> So perhaps it would be a safer strategy to just run the SATA probing in the
> background and keep the rest serialized?

That would work for my machines, but what about everyone else? SCSI
should also be faster, and perhaps other PCI drivers that take a while
in initialization.

Anyway, it does help some people out.

thanks,

greg k-h