On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:52:38 +,
"Huang, Ying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 18:21 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > Parallelism between subsystems may be interesting during boot ==
> > "coldplug", /if/ the machine has time-consuming devices to probe on
> > /different/ types
Greg KH wrote:
> I'm still not convinced that we need to add this kind of complexity to
> the driver core, instead of just letting the individual driver
> subsystems do this, if they want to do it.
>
> Especially as no subsystem wants to do this today :)
Yes, it should first be shown (with subsys
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:00:58PM +, Huang, Ying wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a new version of multithreaded probing patch, with more
> parallelism control added.
>
> There are more control over which devices and drivers will be probed
> parallelized or serially. For example, in IEEE1394 subsyst
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 18:21 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Parallelism between subsystems may be interesting during boot ==
> "coldplug", /if/ the machine has time-consuming devices to probe on
> /different/ types of buses. Of course some machines do the really
> time-consuming stuff on only one t
Huang, Ying wrote:
> I think the queue IDs of different subsystem need not to be exclusive.
> The subsystem can allocate queue IDs arbitrarily. If one queue ID is
> shared between several subsystems, corresponding probing will be
> serialized. This will slow down the probing unnecessarily, but ther
>-Original Message-
>From: Stefan Richter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> The queue number is kernel-global.
>
>Then there is an API required to allocate and deallocate exclusive
queue
>IDs. This feels strange as a mechanism for (de-)serialization, and
>might introduce some bulk WRT code and
Huang, Ying wrote:
>> Is the queue number kernel-global or per subsystem?
>
> The queue number is kernel-global.
Then there is an API required to allocate and deallocate exclusive queue
IDs. This feels strange as a mechanism for (de-)serialization, and
might introduce some bulk WRT code and data
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 17:09 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> I'd call it probe_queue_number or maybe probe_queue_id. The term "no"
> is ambiguous.
Yes, I think probe_queue_id is better.
> Is the queue number kernel-global or per subsystem?
The queue number is kernel-global. I think this is easy t
> Huang, Ying wrote:
...
>> + * @probe: probing infromation include probing function and parameter
> ^^^
> typo: information
Also, the meaning of the rest of the sentence is unclear.
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Huang, Ying wrote:
> This is a new version of multithreaded probing patch, with more
> parallelism control added.
Thanks. (I'd like to try it out but will probably be busy with other
stuff during the next few weeks.)
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> A field named "probe_queue_no" is added to "struct device", which
I'd ca
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