[PATCH] device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check

This patch adds a quick check for the driver<->device match before taking
the locks and doin gthe expensive checks. Taking the lock hurts in asynchronous
boot context where the device lock gets hit; one of the init functions takes
the lock and goes to do an expensive hardware init; the other init functions
walk the same PCI list and get stuck on the lock as a result.

For the common case, we can know there's no chance whatsoever of a match
if the device isn't in the drivers ID table... so this patch does that check
as a best-effort-avoid-the-lock approach.

Bootcharts for before and after can be seen at
http://www.fenrus.org/before.svg
http://www.fenrus.org/after.svg

Note the long time "agp_ali_init" takes in the first graph; my laptop doesn't
even have an ALI chip in it!
(the bootgraphs look a bit dissimilar, but that's the point, the first one has a bunch
of arbitrary delays in it that cause it to look very different)

This reduces my kernel boot time by about 20%

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/base/dd.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 3ac443b..20febc0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -257,6 +257,9 @@ static int __driver_attach(struct device *dev, void *data)
 	 * is an error.
 	 */
 
+	if (drv->bus->match && !drv->bus->match(dev, drv))
+		return 0;
+
 	if (dev->parent)	/* Needed for USB */
 		down(&dev->parent->sem);
 	down(&dev->sem);
-- 
1.5.5.1



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