Re: How to enable DMA at boot time
On Thu 28 Nov 2002 22:45:39 +0000(-0600), Shyamal Prasad wrote:
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> Hmmmm...that is a truly interesting measure. Since I rarely boot my
> machine I've never looked at DMA as a way of speeding up the boot
> sequence. Cool. I feel like I've learned a whole new view of things :-)
I'm not sure whether a sarcastic overtone was intended, but I like it anyway. :-)
This (home) machine is switched off when it's not in use, so the startup time is more conspicuous to me. It's not my primary motive for using DMA, but if I can exploit it that way I'll be doubly pleased.
> I'm curious now: how many seconds to when your root FS is mounted?
> That would determine the upper bound on the improvement.
5 seconds.
hwtools runs after 46 seconds.
> Is most of
> the time spent building module dependencies?
How would I measure that?
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Cheers,
Clive
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