[PATCH v9 0/4] shut down devices asynchronously

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Oct 29 08:32:39 PDT 2024


On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 12:24:32AM +0000, Michael Kelley wrote:
> Yes, I agree that a single core system should be able to get multiple
> NVMe drives shutting down in parallel. The parallelism would be
> governed by the number of worker processes that the workqueue
> decides are needed. I didn't look at how it makes that decision.

Or we could just go back to the old design where one methods kicks off
the shutdown, and then another one waits for it, which requires no
extra threads at all.




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