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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata timeouts when stressing a Samsung HDD
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:13:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49944AA9.8040308@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49944A13.3050105@rtr.ca>

Mark Lord wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
>> How do I change the timeout?
> ..
> 
> Heh.. actually, I'm not entirely sure myself.
> This stuff bounces between the block, scsi, and ata layers,
> and I think it's set before it gets to libata.
..

Mmm.. I think it is the SD_TIMEOUT value, defined in drivers/scsi/sd.h
which currently uses (30 * HZ) as the timeout for most things,
including for cache flushes.

Try changing it to (180 * HZ) just for fun.

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 21:40 libata timeouts when stressing a Samsung HDD Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-11  1:30 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-11  4:08   ` Mark Lord
2009-02-11 20:29     ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-11 22:03       ` Mark Lord
2009-02-11 22:11         ` Jeff Garzik
2009-02-11 22:29           ` Mark Lord
2009-02-11 22:54             ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-12 16:10               ` Mark Lord
2009-02-12 16:13                 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-02-16  3:12                   ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-16 21:30                     ` Chuck Ebbert
2009-02-19  6:21                       ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-19 16:41                         ` Greg Freemyer
2009-02-20  0:33                           ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-12  4:28           ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-19 15:27             ` Mark Lord
2009-02-20  0:32               ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-20  2:52                 ` Robert Hancock
2009-02-20  3:26                   ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-01 19:31                     ` Robert Hancock
2009-03-01 20:28                       ` Alan Cox
2009-02-11 20:24   ` Chuck Ebbert

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