Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:13:07 -0700 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [patch] drivers: wait for threaded probes between initcall levels |
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:47:53PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > Well, yes, but it would help some architectures. It would seem > rather stupid to build a hardware limitation into a 64+ cpu system > such that it cannot initialize or reconfigure multiple pieces of > hardware at once. It also would help for more "mundane" systems such > as my "Quad" G5 desktop which takes an appreciable time to probe all > the various PCI, USB, SATA, and Firewire devices in the system.
Probing PCI devices really doesn't take that long. It's the extra stuff the drivers do at ->probe that takes the time. And the stand-out offender here is SCSI (and FC), which I'm working to fix. Firewire, USB and SATA are somewhere intermediate. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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