Messages in this thread | | | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:34:46 -0800 | Subject | Re: [driver-core PATCH v6 9/9] libnvdimm: Schedule device registration on node local to the device |
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:22 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 12:50 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > Thanks Bart, so tying this back to Alex's patches, does the ordering > > problem that Alex's patches solve impact the SCSI case? I'm looking > > for something like "SCSI depends on asynchronous probing and without > > 'driver core: Establish clear order of operations for deferred probe > > and remove' probing is often needlessly serialized". I.e. does it > > suffer from the same platform problem that libnvdimm ran into where > > it's local async probing implementation was hindered by the driver > > core? > > (+Martin) > > Hi Dan, > > Patch 6/9 reduces the time needed to scan SCSI LUNs significantly. The only > way to realize that speedup is by enabling more concurrency. That's why I > think that patch 6/9 is a significant driver core improvement.
Perfect, Alex, with that added to the 6/9 changelog and moving to device_private for the async state tracking you can add my Reviewed-by.
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