From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Michael Sedkowski <sedmich@gmail.com>,
trenn@suse.de, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:30:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B9D37A.4070403@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B9D219.6030509@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> Heh.. I haven't instrumented it yet, but I did discover a bit more about
> it:
>
> The Power-Off_Retract_Count incrmenents *only* when there's data in the
> on-drive write-cache. So if I haven't written anything significantly large
> before suspending, then it often does NOT increment the retract counter.
>
> But if I copy a couple of multi-MB files around and then suspend (to RAM),
> the retract count gets incremented.
>
> So I've now just stuck "hdparm -F /dev/sda" into my suspend script,
> and that cures the problem completely for me. "-F" does a FLUSH_CACHE,
> and requires a recent copy of hdparm.
>
> Perhaps libata should also do a FLUSH_CACHE before any STANDBYNOW command,
> prior to entering STR, which is what my script is currently now doing..
>
> I'll instrument libata and see what the current sequence is.
Hmmmm.. libata should issue FLUSH CACHE on STR too. sd_suspend() and
sd_shutdown() are pretty similar after all.
--
tejun
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2007-08-06 23:31 ` Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk Robert Hancock
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2007-08-08 2:54 ` Tejun Heo
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2007-09-09 9:20 ` Maciek Rutecki
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2007-08-06 5:22 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-06 14:23 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-08-06 14:50 ` Michael Sedkowski
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2007-08-06 15:27 ` Michael Sedkowski
2007-08-06 15:27 ` Michael Sedkowski
2007-08-06 15:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-06 17:03 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-06 18:21 ` Michael Sedkowski
2007-08-06 18:21 ` Michael Sedkowski
2007-08-06 18:43 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-06 19:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-06 19:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-06 19:43 ` Michael Sedkowski
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2007-08-06 22:18 ` Michael Sedkowski
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2007-08-07 12:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-08-07 9:30 ` Michael Sedkowski
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2007-08-07 13:45 ` Thomas Renninger
2007-08-07 14:01 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-09 15:16 ` Pavel Machek
2007-08-09 15:56 ` Thomas Renninger
2007-08-06 19:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-08-06 19:25 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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