ipr: Reboot speed improvements
Currently when performing a reboot with an ipr adapter, the adapter gets shutdown completely, flushing all write cache, as well as performing a full hardware reset of the card during the shutdown phase of the old kernel. This ensures the adapter is in a fully quiesced state across the reboot. There are scenarios, however, such as when performing kexec, where this full adapter shutdown is not required and not desired, since it can make the reboot process take noticeably longer. This patch adds a module parameter to allow for skipping the full shutdown during reboot. Rather than performing a full adapter shutdown and reset, we simply cancel any outstanding error buffers, place the adapter into a state where it has no memory of any DMA addresses from the old kernel, then disable the device. This significantly speeds up kexec boot, particularly in configurations with multiple ipr adapters. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Kreling <kreling@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
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