Messages in this thread | | | From | Pavel Tatashin <> | Subject | [PATCH v4 0/1] multi-threading device shutdown | Date | Mon, 14 May 2018 15:42:53 -0400 |
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Changelog v3 - v4 - Added device_shutdown_serial kernel parameter to disable multi-threading as suggested by Greg Kroah-Hartman
v2 - v3 - Fixed warning from kbuild test. - Moved device_lock/device_unlock inside device_shutdown_tree().
v1 - v2 - It turns out we cannot lock more than MAX_LOCK_DEPTH by a single thread. (By default this value is 48), and is used to detect deadlocks. So, I re-wrote the code to only lock one devices per thread instead of pre-locking all devices by the main thread. - Addressed comments from Tobin C. Harding. - As suggested by Alexander Duyck removed ixgbe changes. It can be done as a separate work scaling RTNL mutex.
Do a faster shutdown by calling dev->*->shutdown(dev) in parallel. device_shutdown() calls these functions for every single device but only using one thread.
Since, nothing else is running on the machine by the time device_shutdown() is called, there is no reason not to utilize all the available CPU resources.
Pavel Tatashin (1): drivers core: multi-threading device shutdown
drivers/base/core.c | 292 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 242 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
-- 2.17.0
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