From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide/net: flip the order of SATA and network init Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:26:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090127.142638.56529472.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090127141952.51785b4f@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: arjan@infradead.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090127141952.51785b4f@infradead.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:19:52 -0800 > ide/net: flip the order of SATA and network init > > this patch flips the order in which sata and network drivers are initialized. > > SATA probing takes quite a bit of time, and with the asynchronous infrastructure > other drivers that run after it can execute in parallel. Network drivers do tend > to take some real time talking to the hardware, so running these later is > a good thing (the sata probe then runs concurrent) > > This saves about 15% of my kernels boot time. > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven I have no problem with this: Acked-by: David S. Miller