On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:59:27 -0500 Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > We have a large university system in the UK that is experiencing > very long delays modprobing the driver for a specific I/O device. > The delay is from 8-10 minutes per device and there are 31 devices > in the system. This 4 to 5 hour delay in starting up those I/O > devices is very much a burden on the customer. That's nuts. > There are two causes for requiring a restart/reload of the drivers. > First is periodic preventive maintenance (PM) and the second is if > any of the devices experience a fatal error. Both of these trigger > this excessively long delay in bringing the system back up to full > capability. > > The problem was tracked down to a very slow IOREMAP operation and > the excessively long ioresource lookup to insure that the user is > not attempting to ioremap RAM. These patches provide a speed up > to that function. With what result? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>