Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Check the HBM training and C2C link status

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 08:22:52PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On second thought, I guess a vfio-pci variant driver can't
> automatically bind to a device, whether statically built or not, so
> maybe this isn't a concern.  I'm not sure if there are other concerns
> with busy waiting for up to 30s at driver probe.  Thanks,

It is not entirely abnormal. mlx5 has a timeout while it pushes
its first command and on the failure path it is long > 30s IIRC..

Drivers that take a couple of seconds to complete probe are not
unusual.

Jason