Carrier Grade Linux/Gaps Alpha1

[greg@xxxxxxxxx (Greg KH)]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:12:49AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:57:16PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > You do know we can do parallel scsi/fc probes now right?  That's been in
> > the kernel for a while now and does provide a huge decrease in boot time
> > on larger boxes.
> > 
> 
> It saves time if you have multiple SCSI/FC buses on a huge machine,
> yeah --- but I thought we still ended up waiting for all of the buses
> to finish enumerating before we mounted the root filesystem, right?

Yes, you do.

> So you can do some stuff in parallel, but I thought we still ended up
> bottlenecking behind the SCSI/FC device enumeration.

Turns out there isn't much else to do that isn't pretty much
"instantaneous" :)

thanks,

greg k-h