[PATCH v8 0/4] shut down devices asynchronously

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Sep 3 04:10:43 PDT 2024


On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 03:28:01PM -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.
> 
> 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.

Thanks for sticking with this, all now queued up in my tree

greg k-h



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