Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [driver-core PATCH v4 5/6] driver core: Attach devices on CPU local to device node | From | Alexander Duyck <> | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:09:32 -0700 |
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This change makes it so that we call the asynchronous probe routines on a CPU local to the device node. By doing this we should be able to improve our initialization time significantly as we can avoid having to access the device from a remote node which may introduce higher latency.
For example, in the case of initializing memory for NVDIMM this can have a singifcant impact as initialing 3TB on remote node can take up to 39 seconds while initialing it on a local node only takes 23 seconds. It is situations like this where we will see the biggest improvement.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> --- drivers/base/dd.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index c33f893ec9d8..65cfdd2b00ed 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dd.c +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ static int __device_attach(struct device *dev, bool allow_async) */ dev_dbg(dev, "scheduling asynchronous probe\n"); get_device(dev); - async_schedule(__device_attach_async_helper, dev); + async_schedule_dev(__device_attach_async_helper, dev); } else { pm_request_idle(dev); } @@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ static int __driver_attach(struct device *dev, void *data) if (!dev->driver) { get_device(dev); dev_set_drvdata(dev, drv); - async_schedule(__driver_attach_async_helper, dev); + async_schedule_dev(__driver_attach_async_helper, dev); } device_unlock(dev); return 0;
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