Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:21:44 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Request driver probe from an async task |
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:05:52 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > From: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:28:43 +0100 > > On an ASRock E350M1, with Linux 4.17-rc1 according to `initcall_debug` > calling `azx_driver_init` takes sometimes more than a few milliseconds, > and up to 200 ms. > > ``` > [ 2.892598] calling azx_driver_init+0x0/0xfe4 [snd_hda_intel] @ 218 > [ 2.943002] initcall azx_driver_init+0x0/0xfe4 [snd_hda_intel] > returned 0 after 49195 usecs > ``` > > Trying to execute the Linux kernel in less than 500 ms, this is quite a > hold-up, and therefore request the probe from an async task. > > With this change, the test shows, that the function returns earlier. > > ``` > [ 3.254800] calling azx_driver_init+0x0/0xfe4 [snd_hda_intel] @ 227 > [ 3.254887] initcall azx_driver_init+0x0/0xfe4 [snd_hda_intel] > returned 0 after 66 usecs > ``` > > The same behavior is visible on a Dell OptiPlex 7010. The longer times > seem to happen, when the module *e1000e* is probed during the same time. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
What actually took so long? Could you analyze further instead of blindly putting the flag?
thanks,
Takashi
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