From: Bokhan Artem <APTEM@ngs.ru>
To: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
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: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:04:10 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A3221A.1050504@ngs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87f94c370808131050w767623f7s51f0c667a06dcb0a@mail.gmail.com>
But as I understand my problem, all retries and delays are made inside
linux kernel, not inside hardware...
Greg Freemyer ?????:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Bokhan Artem <APTEM@ngs.ru> wrote:
>
>> I have particular fast, simple and cheap controller(s) (MV88SX6081 8-port
>> SATA II PCI-X) with a bunch of disks w/o sw/hw raid.
>> I need to return an error to application ASAP if media error detected.
>>
>>
>
> My thought was that if speed is more important than reliability in
> your case, then you could buy a "Enterprise" version hard drive and
> eliminate the time it takes the drive to internally do retries.
>
> ie. The concept for which Enterprise drives exist is raid, but that
> does not mean you have to use them that way.
>
> Greg
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-13 18:04 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
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 [this message]
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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