[PATCH 0/2] Populate rootfs asynchronously and early

[Surbhi Palande]

These patches populate the rootfs asynchronously and early to improve the 
boot performance. They are tested against a 2.6.32 kernel on KVM and Dell
Mini 10v. On a  Dell Mini 10v, it was observed that the boot performance 
improved by 0.35 ms with the 1st patch and by 0.37 ms with the 1st and
the 2nd patch together.

More testing from a wider audience will be appreciated.

Originally populate_rootfs() did not return any error code and hence
could be safely converted to a void function. async_synchronize_domain()
is called immediately after do_basic_setup() so that we wait only for
the completion of populate_rootfs and not the other functions.

The following changes since commit 41ff170f0e6769813433090444b14a2e33477fcd:
Andy Whitcroft (1):
UBUNTU: Start new release

are available in the git repository at:

 git://kernel.ubuntu.com/surbhi/ubuntu-lucid.git asyncrootfs

Surbhi Palande (2):
  Populate rootfs asynchronously for boot performance
  Starting the population of rootfs early during boot

 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    1 +
 include/linux/init.h              |    1 +
 init/initramfs.c                  |   17 +++++++++++++----
 init/main.c                       |    7 +++++++
 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)