Re: [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init

From: Alexander Holler
Date: Sat Oct 17 2015 - 15:43:29 EST


Am 17.10.2015 um 20:38 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:

So how long does that really take to call all probe functions in all
possible order? Real numbers please. We have the tools to determine
where at boot time delays are happening, please use them to find the
problem drivers.

No idea. You might ask Tomeu Vizoso (I've added him to cc) for details (or search for the thread "On-demand device registration" where he complained that his chromebook boots slow). I've just measured, that most my ARM boxes booted faster when I've used the ordering, instead of slower through the introduce overhead to order initcalls (without having parallelized the initcalls).

Posting times doesn't make much sense, as they heavily depend on the configuration. Instead I've posted patches so you can test it yourself.

But if you want a real time, my Netbook with a single core but HT Atom N270 boots in one second instead of two to "dmesg | grep Freeing".

Regards,

Alexander Holler
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