[PATCH v7 0/4] shut down devices asynchronously

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Wed Jun 26 12:58:07 PDT 2024


On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 02:46:46PM -0500, Stuart Hayes wrote:
> This adds the ability for the kernel to shutdown devices asynchronously.
> 
> Only devices with drivers that enable it are shut down asynchronously,
> and this driver setting can be changed in sysfs.
> 
> This can dramatically reduce system shutdown/reboot time on systems that
> have multiple devices that take many seconds to shut down (like certain
> NVMe drives). On one system tested, the shutdown time went from 11 minutes
> without this patch to 55 seconds with the patch.

Looks good to me. For the series:

Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>

Thanks!



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