Slow X startup and Hammering /proc/pci

Phillip Ezolt phillipezolt at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 14:04:44 PDT 2006


On 6/1/06, Daniel Stone <daniel at freedesktop.org> wrote:

> > I shaved 1.7 seconds off of the startup time here by editing
> > hw/xfree86/os-support/bus/Pci.c to stop after finding as many devices as
> > there are lines in /proc/bus/pci/devices:
> >
> > if (idx < number_of_pci_devices)
> >       tag = pciFindNext();
> > else
> >       tag = PCI_NOT_FOUND;
> >
> > No idea if this is a good general solution, but it worked for me.


That's awesome.


> There's a better solution, which I think is still languishing in
> Bugzilla.


Is this (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6583) what you are
referring to?

If so, how can we stop the languishing?

--Phil
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