From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Artem Bokhan <aptem@ngs.ru>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH #upstream-fixes] sata_mv: don't issue two DMA commands concurrently
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:17:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A30920.5030803@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A2CE09.9090806@ngs.ru>
Artem Bokhan wrote:
> When I run 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null skip=9700 bs=1M' and it meets
> bad block, it takes about
> '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/0000:02:02.0/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0/timeout
> + about 10 seconds' to determine I/O error. Until that IO to device is
> locked, as I understand. I want to reduce the time of lock as much as
> possible.
..
Tell the SCSI layer to stop flogging the drive with unnecessary retries.
A quick and dirty way, is this patch below, but it really should be more
intelligent than this for some situations:
--- linux/include/scsi/sd.h.orig 2008-06-09 14:27:19.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/include/scsi/sd.h 2008-08-13 12:16:01.000000000 -0400
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
/*
* Number of allowed retries
*/
-#define SD_MAX_RETRIES 5
+#define SD_MAX_RETRIES 1
#define SD_PASSTHROUGH_RETRIES 1
/*
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-08 10:02 bad sectors, suspicious behaviour Artem Bokhan
2008-08-08 13:34 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-08 13:50 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-08 14:14 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-11 11:12 ` Bokhan Artem
2008-08-13 8:40 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-13 10:47 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-13 10:50 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-13 11:19 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-13 11:24 ` [PATCH #upstream-fixes] sata_mv: don't issue two DMA commands concurrently Tejun Heo
2008-08-13 11:37 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-13 11:52 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-13 12:05 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-13 12:21 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-13 12:32 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-13 16:17 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-08-13 17:37 ` Bokhan Artem
2008-08-13 19:58 ` Bokhan Artem
2008-08-13 23:36 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-14 7:42 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-14 12:40 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-14 12:58 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-14 13:17 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-14 19:49 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-15 5:35 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-15 12:27 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-13 16:57 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-08-13 17:29 ` Bokhan Artem
2008-08-13 17:50 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-08-13 18:04 ` Bokhan Artem
2008-08-13 18:13 ` Greg Freemyer
2008-08-13 11:47 ` Artem Bokhan
2008-08-13 11:52 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-22 16:28 ` Grant Grundler
2008-08-13 16:10 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-22 6:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-08-22 17:01 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-08-26 13:54 ` Mark Lord
2008-08-29 7:12 ` Martin Michlmayr
2008-08-26 1:24 ` Gwendal Grignou
2008-08-26 7:04 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-26 13:58 ` Mark Lord
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