[PATCH 0/2] Populate rootfs asynchronously and early

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:32:05PM +0200, Surbhi Palande wrote:
> 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.

0.35s and 0.37s I assume.

> 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.

-apw