From: Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET #upstream] libata: improve FLUSH error handling
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:23:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47EC025A.1070004@emc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EBED0A.8020201@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Ric Wheeler wrote:
>> I think that the 30 seconds was meant to be that worst case time for
>> the drive to respond to a command. We try to push vendors to respond
>> in much less time than that (it's important to get things like the
>> fast fail path for RAID working correctly), say something like 10-15
>> seconds.
>
>
> Multiple vendors say the FLUSH CACHE worst case can exceed 30 seconds
> though...
>
> Jeff
That might be true, but in that case, I still think we should never retry the
flush ;-)
ric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-27 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-27 10:14 [PATCHSET #upstream] libata: improve FLUSH error handling Tejun Heo
2008-03-27 10:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] libata: make ata_tf_to_lba[48]() generic Tejun Heo
2008-04-04 7:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-03-27 10:14 ` [PATCH 2/4] libata: implement ATA_QCFLAG_RETRY Tejun Heo
2008-03-27 10:14 ` [PATCH 3/4] libata: kill unused ata_flush_cache() Tejun Heo
2008-03-27 10:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] libata: improve FLUSH error handling Tejun Heo
2008-04-04 7:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-03-27 10:23 ` Debug patch to induce errors on FLUSH Tejun Heo
2008-03-27 14:24 ` [PATCHSET #upstream] libata: improve FLUSH error handling Mark Lord
2008-03-27 14:35 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-27 15:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-27 18:01 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-28 1:57 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-28 2:33 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-28 13:36 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-28 14:52 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-28 14:53 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-28 15:16 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-28 16:57 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-28 16:04 ` Mark Lord
2008-03-27 17:53 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-27 18:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-03-27 20:23 ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2008-03-28 7:46 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-28 8:30 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-28 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-28 8:53 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-27 17:51 ` Ric Wheeler
2008-03-27 18:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-03-27 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2008-03-28 2:02 ` Tejun Heo
2008-03-28 9:48 ` Alan Cox
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