Re: [patch 5/3] fastboot: sync the async execution beforelate_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:14:59 -0700
Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 09:00 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > @@ -775,6 +776,11 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
> >                 }
> >                 if (phase == 1 && call >= __async_initcall_end)
> >                         phase = 2;
> > +               if (phase == 2 && call >= __device_initcall_end) {
> > +                       phase = 3;
> > +                       /* make sure all async work is done before
> > level 7 */
> > +                       flush_workqueue(async_init_wq);
> > +               }
> >                 if (phase != 1)
> >                         do_one_initcall(*call);
> >         }
> 
> Did this impact the boot time improvements at all?

not much in my measurement; but on my system .. level 7 is mostly empty
so there's not much difference


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