09 Feb, 2009

1 commit

• 766ccb9ed   async: Rename _special -> _domain for clarity. ... Browse Code »

  Rename the async_*_special() functions to async_*_domain(), which
  describes the purpose of these functions much better.
  [Broke up long lines to silence checkpatch]

  Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck
  Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven

  Cornelia Huck

  2009-02-09 01:56:11 +0800  

08 Jan, 2009

1 commit

• 22a9d6456   async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot ... Browse Code »

  Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that
  various hardware delays are done sequentially.

  In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces
  infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps
  asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays
  in practice.

  In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this
  patch does NOT do full parallel initialization.

  Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may
  be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects
  (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence.

  Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven

  Arjan van de Ven

  2009-01-08 00:45:46 +0800