[PATCH] nvme: Boot as soon as the boot controller has been probed

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Nov 8 03:24:03 EST 2020


On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 08:09:03PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> The following two issues have been introduced by commit 1811977568e0
> ("nvme/pci: Use async_schedule for initial reset work"):
> - The boot process waits until all NVMe controllers have been probed
>   instead of only waiting until the boot controller has been probed.
>   This slows down the boot process.
> - Some of the controller probing work happens asynchronously without
>   the device core being aware of this.
> 
> Hence this patch that makes all probing work happen from nvme_probe()
> and that tells the device core to probe multiple NVMe controllers
> concurrently by setting PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS.
> 
> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat.com>
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche at acm.org>
> ---

A fixes: tag?

thanks,

greg k-h



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