From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751985Ab3JTW6F (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:58:05 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:9768 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751816Ab3JTW6D (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:58:03 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.93,535,1378882800"; d="scan'208";a="414176148" From: Andi Kleen To: Prarit Bhargava Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com, ming.lei@canonical.com, tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Improve firmware loading times on AMD and Intel References: <1382304926-1641-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 15:58:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1382304926-1641-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com> (Prarit Bhargava's message of "Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:35:24 -0400") Message-ID: <87eh7fturq.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Prarit Bhargava writes: > > Using request_firmware_nowait() seems more appropriate here and then we > can avoid these delays, resulting in very quick load times for the > microcode. It would be probably also good to remember if the loading failed for a given CPU and then don't try it on any other. Just need to cache the exact stepping too to handle different steppings. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only