Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order

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From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order
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On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:14:34PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote:
> Am 17.10.2015 um 21:08 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> >On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>That isn't a flag day thing. It's a config option everyone can turn on and
> >>off whenever he wants.
> >
> >That's a flag-day thing. We've done it (drm comes to mind - several times).
> >
> >I'm disappointed, because I _know_ I pointed you in the direction of
> >stable sorting about a month ago. I really had hoped you'd have taken
> >that into account.
> 
> It's impossible to take it into account because I don't want to miss the
> parallelize functionality. And without that, all the stuff doesn't offer
> enough benefits to be worse the effort but just adds some time necessary to
> do the sorting. It might solve the deferred probe problems, but without much
> benefit.

Again, parallelizing does not solve anything, and causes more problems
_and_ makes things take longer.  Try it, we have done it in the past and
proven this, it's pretty easy to test :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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[PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-17 20:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 20:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-17 21:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-17 21:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 21:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-17 21:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-17 21:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 22:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 23:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 23:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 21:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-17 21:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-17 21:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 21:10 +0200
  [PATCH 03/14] init: deps: dt: use (HW-specific) dependencies provided by the DT too Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 06/14] dtc: deps: Automatically add new property 'dependencies' which contains a list of referenced phandles Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 07/14] dtc: deps: introduce new (virtual) property no-dependencies Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 09/14] dtc: deps: Add option to print dependency graph as dot (Graphviz) Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 02/14] init: deps: use annotated initcalls for a dependency based (optionally parallelized) init Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 01/14] init: deps: introduce annotated initcalls Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:20 +0200
  [PATCH 14/14] dt: dts: deps: omap: beagle: make some remote-endpoints non-dependencies Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:30 +0200
  [PATCH 13/14] dt: dts: deps: imx6q: make some remote-endpoints non-dependencies Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:30 +0200
  [PATCH 12/14] dt: dts: deps: kirkwood: dockstar: add dependency ehci -> usb power regulator Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 19:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-17 19:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 20:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-17 20:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 21:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2015-10-17 22:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/14] init: deps: dependency based (parallelized) init Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 22:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 11/14] init: deps: annotate various initcalls Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2015-10-17 20:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 11/14] init: deps: annotate various initcalls Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> - 2015-10-17 21:10 +0200

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