Re: [driver-core PATCH v6 9/9] libnvdimm: Schedule device registration on node local to the device

On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 12:50 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > Thanks Bart, so tying this back to Alex's patches, does the ordering > problem that Alex's patches solve impact the SCSI case? I'm looking > for something like "SCSI depends on asynchronous probing and without > 'driver core: Establish clear order of operations for deferred probe > and remove' probing is often needlessly serialized". I.e. does it > suffer from the same platform problem that libnvdimm ran into where > it's local async probing implementation was hindered by the driver > core? (+Martin) Hi Dan, Patch 6/9 reduces the time needed to scan SCSI LUNs significantly. The only way to realize that speedup is by enabling more concurrency. That's why I think that patch 6/9 is a significant driver core improvement.