Re: [RFC PATCH 0/14] Parallel memory initialisation

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 09:15:50AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> I had included your patch with the 4.0 kernel and booted up a 16-socket
> 12-TB machine. I measured the elapsed time from the elilo prompt to the
> availability of ssh login. Without the patch, the bootup time was 404s. It
> was reduced to 298s with the patch. So there was about 100s reduction in
> bootup time (1/4 of the total).

But you cheat! :-)

How long between power on and the elilo prompt? Do the 100 seconds
matter on that time scale?
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