Re: [PATCH v6 2/3] drivers core: prepare device_shutdown for multi-threading

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:25 PM, Pavel Tatashin
<pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do all the necessary refactoring to prepare device_shutdown() logic to
> be multi-threaded.
>
> Which includes:
> 1. Change the direction of traversing the list instead of going backward,
> we now go forward.
> 2. Children are shutdown recursively for each root device from bottom-up.
> 3. Functions that can be multi-threaded have _task() in their name.

> +/*
> + * device_children_count - device children count
> + * @parent: parent struct device.
> + *
> + * Returns number of children for this device or 0 if none.
> + */
> +static int device_children_count(struct device *parent)
> +{
> +       struct klist_iter i;
> +       int children = 0;
> +
> +       if (!parent->p)
> +               return 0;
> +
> +       klist_iter_init(&parent->p->klist_children, &i);
> +       while (next_device(&i))
> +               children++;
> +       klist_iter_exit(&i);
> +
> +       return children;
> +}

Looking at another patch in LKML (for gluedir children counting) I
would suggest to consider to cache children value.
Would it  make sense?

(So, basically you would update that value on children registered / removed)

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko