linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] Optimize fw

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Date:   Fri, 15 May 2020 01:52:37 -0700
From:   Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:     Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ji Luo <ji.luo@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] Optimize fw_devlink parsing

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 10:35 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> When fw_devlink is enabled on hardware with a large number of device
> tree nodes, the initial device addition done in
> of_platform_default_populate_init() can be very inefficient. This is
> because most devices will fail to find all their suppliers when they are
> added and will keep trying to parse their device tree nodes and link to
> any newly added devices
>
> This was an item on my TODO list that I'm finally getting around to. On
> hardware I'm testing on, this saved 1.216 _seconds_!

Correction. It went from 1.216 _seconds_ to 61 _milliseconds_! So
about 95% reduction in time.

-Saravana