LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds
Posted Sep 25, 2008 14:39 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)In reply to: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds by aleXXX
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With multi-core or hyperthreading it is worth doing some things asynchronous.
But it's a subtle but important difference between doing things in parallel and doing some selected things asynchronous.
But it's a subtle but important difference between doing things in parallel and doing some selected things asynchronous.
The key thing is to do the "critical path" of the boot sequential and as tightly packed as possible, while doing non-critical (to the boot) things asynchronous.