Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve firmware loading times on AMD and Intel

2013-10-20 Thread Andi Kleen
Prarit Bhargava writes: > > Using request_firmware_nowait() seems more appropriate here and then we > can avoid these delays, resulting in very quick load times for the > microcode. It would be probably also good to remember if the loading failed for a given CPU and then don't try it on any oth

[PATCH 0/2] Improve firmware loading times on AMD and Intel

2013-10-20 Thread Prarit Bhargava
If no firmware is found on the system that matches the processor, the microcode module can take hours to load. For example on recent kernels when loading the microcode module on an Intel system: [ 239.532116] microcode: CPU0 sig=0x306e4, pf=0x1, revision=0x413 [ 299.693447] microcode: CPU1 sig=