From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for asynchronous scans to libata Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:18:17 -0500 Message-ID: <457D84C9.6020907@pobox.com> References: <20061208211236.GC29763@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:47243 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936947AbWLKQSU (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:18:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20061208211236.GC29763@parisc-linux.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Some of the drivers (AHCI was mentioned to me as a culprit) take a long > time to discover all the devices attached to them. Even for ones which > are relatively quick, if you put a lot of them in a machine, it will > take a long time in aggregate. This can be fixed by adding support for > asynchronous scsi scans, which causes the time-consuming portions of > initialisation to take place in threads. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox ACK. I tried to apply the patch, but git-applymbox choked on every single file modified. Quite possibly, its due to a whitespace cleanup in Alan territory. If you would either (a) wait several hours for libata-dev.git#upstream to mirror out, and resend, or (b) supply a git:// URL to pull from, I'll merge. Jeff