From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755861Ab0LIB3S (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:29:18 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49266 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753375Ab0LIB3Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 20:29:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4D00308B.2040009@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:27:39 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.1.6-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Steiner CC: lenb@kernel.org, hmh@hmh.eng.br, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, tony.luck@gmail.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gbeshers@sgi.com Subject: Re: [RFC - V2] - Mapping ACPI tables as CACHED References: <20100722152220.GA18290@sgi.com> <20100724001449.GA9618@khazad-dum.debian.net> <4C743C0F.2010101@zytor.com> <20100826171704.GA21584@sgi.com> <4C76AD82.2030105@zytor.com> <20101208212244.GA24280@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20101208212244.GA24280@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/08/2010 01:22 PM, Jack Steiner wrote: > > This patch substantially reduces the time to run ACPIDUMP on a large system: > 527 seconds without the patch > 8 seconds with the patch > This is probably the worst possible motivation you can give here. Bootup time is much more of an issue. However, this really needs Len's ack. -hpa