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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>,
	Jeremy Allison <jallison@ciq.com>,
	tansuresh@google.com, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, rafael@kernel.org,
	bhelgaas@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver core: Support asynchronous driver shutdown
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:56:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231219135653.GA29757@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f3084d3-10ce-49b9-8219-70dbf504cd6a@grimberg.me>

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 03:49:18PM +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>>> I could change this so that the existing shutdown() method
>>> is always called, and the device is only added to the async_shutdown_list
>>> if a shutdown_post() (or as requested below, shutdown_wait())
>>> method is defined for the device.
>>
>> Yes, that's what I mean.
>
> I think its usually better to separate sync vs async interfaces. However
> I assume that the suggested interface exists elsewhere in the kernel, so
> its not a big deal.

I don't think we have async shutdown anywhere else.

It's also not really an async interface is the classic sense, but more a
fire now and then wait for completion later interface, i.e. no notication
on completion but pure polling.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-19 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-15  0:03 Make NVME shutdown async - version 2 Jeremy Allison
2023-12-15  0:03 ` [PATCH 1/3] driver core: Support asynchronous driver shutdown Jeremy Allison
2023-12-15 12:21   ` Greg KH
2023-12-19  5:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-19  6:19     ` Jeremy Allison
2023-12-19  6:21       ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-19 13:49         ` Sagi Grimberg
2023-12-19 13:56           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-12-19 14:12             ` Sagi Grimberg
2023-12-15  0:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] PCI: Support asynchronous shutdown Jeremy Allison
2023-12-15  0:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvme: Add async shutdown support Jeremy Allison
2023-12-19  5:43   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-12-19  6:35     ` Jeremy Allison
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-12-12 18:09 Make NVME shutdown async Jeremy Allison
2023-12-12 18:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] driver core: Support asynchronous driver shutdown Jeremy Allison
2023-12-13 13:59   ` Sagi Grimberg
2023-12-13 17:34     ` Jeremy Allison
2023-12-13 17:48   ` Bart Van Assche

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