From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] V3 of the async function call patches
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:17:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901071611490.3283@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107151151.458333c1@infradead.org>
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> version 3 of the async function call patches
>
> * Dropped the ACPI part; it broke i surprising ways; needs a rethink
> (working with Len and co on that)
> * Included asynchronous delete()
Ok, I pulled this, because I really do want the boot speedups and the
previous version missed the last merge window, but after booting it, I
started to worry:
My dmesg shows:
[ 2.264955] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2.264958] sdb:<6>Freeing unused kernel memory: 408k freed
Ouch. How come that "Freeing unused kernel memory" got done in the middle
of the sdb partition thing?
There's a async_synchronize_full() there before the free_initmem(), but
I'm worrying that it just isn't working. Hmm? What am I missing?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-07 23:11 Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-07 23:12 ` [PATCH 1/7] async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel boot Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-08 0:31 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2009-01-08 1:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-13 20:48 ` Jonathan Corbet
2009-01-14 11:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2009-02-14 0:22 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-14 4:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-14 7:29 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-15 19:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-15 22:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-16 10:31 ` Cornelia Huck
2009-01-07 23:12 ` [PATCH 2/7] fastboot: make scsi probes asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-07 23:13 ` [PATCH 3/7] fastboot: make the libata port scan asynchronous Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-07 23:13 ` [PATCH 4/7] fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-07 23:14 ` [PATCH 5/7] async: make the final inode deletion an asynchronous event Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-07 23:14 ` [PATCH 6/7] bootchart: improve output based on Dave Jones' feedback Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-07 23:15 ` [PATCH 7/7] async: don't do the initcall stuff post boot Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-08 0:17 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-01-08 1:21 ` [PATCH 0/7] V3 of the async function call patches Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-15 8:10 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-09 20:21 ` Ryan Hope
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