Re: Speeding up autoconf on PCs

To: Andrew Doran <ad%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Speeding up autoconf on PCs
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:32:05 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Andrew Doran wrote:

This patch uses kthreads to absorb delays during autoconf, speeding up the
boot process quite a bit. Comments?

I can't test it, but I'm curious - can you tell by what factor/percentagethis is sped up? From looking at the code, I wonder if 8 threads give a8-times speedup? Also, why 8?



 - Hubert

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