On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > From e89d6840ad685a3c61f72367d4ac5bfed69ead0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:58:11 -0800 > Subject: [PATCH] ide/net: flip the order of SATA and network init > > this patch flips the order in which sata and network drivers are initialized. it seems to affect much more than that, please see below > 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 <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/Makefile | 5 +++-- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/Makefile b/drivers/Makefile > index c1bf417..2618a61 100644 > --- a/drivers/Makefile > +++ b/drivers/Makefile > @@ -36,13 +36,14 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_FB_INTEL) += video/intelfb/ > > obj-y += serial/ > obj-$(CONFIG_PARPORT) += parport/ > -obj-y += base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ net/ media/ > +obj-y += base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ media/ > obj-$(CONFIG_NUBUS) += nubus/ > -obj-$(CONFIG_ATM) += atm/ > obj-y += macintosh/ > obj-$(CONFIG_IDE) += ide/ > obj-$(CONFIG_SCSI) += scsi/ scsi, ide, macintosh and nubus will be now init-ed after network. No problem for ide but I'm not really sure about scsi... > obj-$(CONFIG_ATA) += ata/ > +obj-y += net/ > +obj-$(CONFIG_ATM) += atm/ > obj-$(CONFIG_FUSION) += message/ > obj-$(CONFIG_FIREWIRE) += firewire/ > obj-y += ieee1394/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
