In LinuxBIOS, we could init_ecc asynchronous and the time reduced from 8x to 2.1x for 8 ways system. 1x mean 5s for 4G in one cpu. If 16G will take 20s.
for TSC_SYNC asynchronous maybe you can get back 0.1s... YH On 8/10/05, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So my patch still can be used with Eric's, It just serialize the > > TSC_SYNC between cpu. > > > > I wonder it you can refine to make TSC_SYNC serialize that beteen CPU. > > That will make > > CPU X:synchronized TSC ... > > in fixed postion and timming. > > Why would we want that? > > Boot time is critical so it's better to do things asynchronous. > > -Andi > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
