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Asynchronous Device Shutdown Doesn't Make It For Linux 6.12
Patches for wiring up async device shutdown within the Linux kernel were queued via the driver core branch for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel
At an extreme this opt-in asynchronous device shutdown support allowed a server that had taken 11 minutes to reboot to now do so in 55 seconds when having lots of NVMe drives attached. After reverting the async shutdown patches, Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out the driver core changes for Linux 6.12 and noted they'll hopefully be reworked for v6.13 next year. As for what's in the driver core changes now, it's mostly small clean-ups and fixes.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.
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