From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il (Sagi Grimberg) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 18:08:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCHv2 5/5] NVMe: Shutdown controller only for power-off In-Reply-To: <20160104155431.GH31375@localhost.localdomain> References: <1451580116-12252-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com> <1451580116-12252-6-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com> <568951C7.5010504@dev.mellanox.co.il> <20160104155431.GH31375@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <568A98F2.9060707@dev.mellanox.co.il> >> Just out of curiosity, what's "longer"? how much does this patch save us? > > It depends on the device's capacity in my experience. Testing on a 2TB > P3700, a complete reset takes about 8 seconds when using controller > shutdown, and ~3 seconds without it. Fair enough.