Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 12201] New: long wait in call_usermodehelper() / queue_work() / wait_for_completion()

From: Michael Spiegle <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:47:16 -0800

> If you replace /sbin/modprobe in the kernel module loader, does the
> delay go away:
>   echo /bin/true > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe

Yes, that does reduce the delay significantly.  The timing of the 
socket() call went from about 1500000us to 430000us.  This points the 
finger at modprobe it seems?

Michael Spiegle
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