On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 11:34 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:04 AM Alexander Duyck > <alexander.h.du...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2018-11-26 at 18:21 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:07 AM Alexander Duyck > > > <alexander.h.du...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Force the device registration for nvdimm devices to be closer to the > > > > actual > > > > device. This is achieved by using either the NUMA node ID of the > > > > region, or > > > > of the parent. By doing this we can have everything above the region > > > > based > > > > on the region, and everything below the region based on the nvdimm bus. > > > > > > > > By guaranteeing NUMA locality I see an improvement of as high as 25% for > > > > per-node init of a system with 12TB of persistent memory. > > > > > > > > > > It seems the speed-up is achieved with just patches 1, 2, and 9 from > > > this series, correct? I wouldn't want to hold up that benefit while > > > the driver-core bits are debated. > > > > Actually patch 6 ends up impacting things for persistent memory as > > well. The problem is that all the async calls to add interfaces only do > > anything if the driver is already loaded. So there are cases such as > > the X86_PMEM_LEGACY_DEVICE case where the memory regions end up still > > being serialized because the devices are added before the driver. > > Ok, but is the patch 6 change generally useful outside of the > libnvdimm case? Yes, local hacks like MODULE_SOFTDEP are terrible for > global problems, but what I'm trying to tease out if this change > benefits other async probing subsystems outside of libnvdimm, SCSI > perhaps? Bart can you chime in with the benefits you see so it's clear > to Greg that the driver-core changes are a generic improvement?
Hi Dan, For SCSI asynchronous probing is really important because when scanning SAN LUNs there is plenty of potential for concurrency due to the network delay. I think the following quote provides the information you are looking for: "This patch reduces the time needed for loading the scsi_debug kernel module with parameters delay=0 and max_luns=256 from 0.7s to 0.1s. In other words, this specific test runs about seven times faster." Source: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg124457.html Best regards, Bart. _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list Linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm