On Tue, 8 May 2007, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>
> > Threading at a driver level still does that (ie individual disks may be
> > attached in some order that depends on how fast they are to respond), but
> > in a much more controlled fashion, and only for drivers that explicitly
> > say that they can do it.
>
> How is that better? You still must rely on udev for persistent device
> names.
It's better because then the *driver* can decide whether it supports
threaded probing or not.
The threaded PCI bus probing was totally and utterly broken exactly
because many drivers were simply not willing or able to handle it.
Also, quite frankly, when this came up I already posted a much better
approach for allowing arbitrary threading. It was ignored, but maybe you
want to take a look.
See
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/27/185
for last time this came up. Any driver can decide to do
execute_in_parallel(myprobe, myarguments);
and that really *simple* thing allows synchronization points
("wait_for_parallel()") and arbitrary setting of the allowed parallelism.
I really think that is a *much* better approach. It allows, for example,
the driver to do certain things (like name allocations and any
particularly *fast* parts of probing) synchronously, and then do slow
things (like spinning up disks and actually reading the partition tables)
asynchronously.
Anyway, I will refuse to merge anything that does generic bus-level
(unless the bus is something off-the-board like SCSI) parallelism, unless
you can really show me how superior and stable it is. I seriously doubt
you can. We tried it once, and it was a total disaster.
Linus
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