Re: [driver-core PATCH v6 7/9] driver core: Attach devices on CPU local to device node

From: Dan Williams
Date: Mon Nov 26 2018 - 23:50:37 EST


On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:07 AM Alexander Duyck
<alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> For example, in the case of initializing memory for NVDIMM this can have a
> significant impact as initialing 3TB on remote node can take up to 39
> seconds while initialing it on a local node only takes 23 seconds. It is
> situations like this where we will see the biggest improvement.
>
> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>