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2009-01-09async: make async a command line option for nowArjan van de Ven
... and have it default off. This does allow people to work with it for testing. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-08async: make async_synchronize_full() more serializingArjan van de Ven
turns out that there are real problems with allowing async tasks that are scheduled from async tasks to run after the async_synchronize_full() returns. This patch makes the _full more strict and a complete synchronization. Later I might need to add back a lighter form of synchronization for other uses.. but not right now. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-07async: don't do the initcall stuff post bootArjan van de Ven
while tracking the asynchronous calls during boot using the initcall_debug convention is useful, doing it once the kernel is done is actually bad now that we use asynchronous operations post boot as well... Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-01-07async: Asynchronous function calls to speed up kernel bootArjan van de Ven
Right now, most of the kernel boot is strictly synchronous, such that various hardware delays are done sequentially. In order to make the kernel boot faster, this patch introduces infrastructure to allow doing some of the initialization steps asynchronously, which will hide significant portions of the hardware delays in practice. In order to not change device order and other similar observables, this patch does NOT do full parallel initialization. Rather, it operates more in the way an out of order CPU does; the work may be done out of order and asynchronous, but the observable effects (instruction retiring for the CPU) are still done in the original sequence. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>