Re: [PATCH] nvme: Check for readiness more quickly, to speed up boot time

[Keith Busch]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 06:52:28PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> @@ -2074,7 +2074,7 @@ static int nvme_wait_ready(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, u64 cap, bool enabled)
>  		if ((csts & NVME_CSTS_RDY) == bit)
>  			break;
>  
> -		msleep(100);
> +		usleep_range(1000, 2000);
>  		if (fatal_signal_pending(current))
>  			return -EINTR;
>  		if (time_after(jiffies, timeout)) {

The key being this sleep schedules the task unlike udelay. It's neat
you can boot where 100ms is considered a long time.

This clearly helps when you've one nvme that becomes ready quickly, but
what happens with many nvme's that are slow to ready? This change will
end up polling the status of those 1000's of times, I wonder if there's
a point where this frequent sleep/wake cycle initializing a whole lot
of nvme devices in parallel may interfere with other init tasks.

I doubt there's really an issue there, but thought it's worth considering
what happens at the other end of the specturm.

Anyway, the patch looks fine to me.

Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@xxxxxxxxxx>