Thought about speeding up startup...

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 21.10.2004, 16:38 -0700 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:26:21AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:11:27PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > In Oxford, I did some primitive profiling of this, and a huge part of the
> > > delay is actually parsing out the (large) pcimap file using only the shell.
> > > I believe it was about 300ms per PCI device, which adds up to a significant
> > > amount of time.  Most of the modules are actually fairly quick to load.
> > > The whole pipeline is started up and stopped again for each device; I have
> > > 17 PCI devices in my laptop, and 11 in my desktop.
what about splitting the up pci database in categories, hotplug as well
and then run the different categorized hotplugs as threads in parallel ?

ciao
	oli
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