Re: [PATCH v2 3/7] drivers/base: Probe devices concurrently if requested by the driver

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On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 05:54:56PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 4:41 PM Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Instead of probing devices sequentially in the PROBE_PREFER_ASYNCHRONOUS
> > mode, scan devices concurrently. This helps when the wall clock time for
> > a single probe is significantly above the CPU time needed for a single
> > probe, e.g. when scanning SCSI LUNs over a storage network.
> 
> Alex had a similar patch here [1] that I don't think has been accepted
> yet, in any event some collaboration is needed:
> 
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/27/14

Yes, they both need to work together here...

thanks for pointing this out.

greg k-h



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