Re: [workqueue/driver-core PATCH v2 4/5] driver core: Attach devices on CPU local to device node

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 04:08:40PM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This change makes it so that we call the asynchronous probe routines on a
> CPU local to the device node. By doing this we should be able to improve
> our initialization time significantly as we can avoid having to access the
> device from a remote node which may introduce higher latency.

This is nice in theory, but what kind of real numbers does this show?
There's a lot of added complexity here, and what is the benifit?

Benchmarks or bootcharts that we can see would be great to have, thanks.

greg k-h