Re: [patch 1/3] fastboot: Create a "asynchronous" initlevel

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 23:44:20 EST


On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:22:20 -0700
Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 15:16 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > +static void __init do_initcalls(void)
> > +{
> > + initcall_t *call;
> > + static DECLARE_WORK(async_work, do_async_initcalls);
> > + int phase = 0; /* 0 = levels 0 - 6, 1 = level 6a, 2 = after
> > level 6a */
> > +
> > + async_init_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("kasyncinit");
> > +
>
> Could you spawning one thread per cpu, and queuing the work evenly?

not without loosing the ordering.....



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