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This is helpful for systems where fast startup time is important. It is especially nice to avoid benchmarking RAID functions that are never used (for example, BTRFS selects RAID6_PQ even if the parity RAID mode is not in use). This saves 250+ milliseconds of boot time on modern x86 and ARM systems with a dozen or more available implementations. The new option is defaulted to 'y' to match the previous behavior of always benchmarking on init. Signed-off-by: Daniel Verkamp <dverkamp@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.