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From: "Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]" <r.bhatia@ipax.at>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aic94xx driver woes continued
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:08:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E2D268.2070609@ipax.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206043027.3038.48.camel@localhost.localdomain>

hi james,

James Bottomley wrote:
 > A work around might be to lower the queue depth to say 4 or 8 and up the
 > retries (this latter can only be done by altering the SD_MAX_RETRIES
 > parameter in include/scsi/sd.h and recompiling).

any suggestions for these parameters:

include/scsi/sd.h:
 > #define SD_TIMEOUT              (30 * HZ)
 > #define SD_MOD_TIMEOUT          (75 * HZ)
 >
 > #define SD_MAX_RETRIES          5
 > #define SD_PASSTHROUGH_RETRIES  1

shall i alter the timeouts?

what is a good value for the retries? time it by 2? by 5? by 10?


moreover, where can i lower the queue?

cheers,
raoul
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-20 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-20 18:43 aic94xx driver woes continued Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
2008-03-20 19:01 ` James Bottomley
2008-03-20 19:14   ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
2008-03-29 22:36     ` Luben Tuikov
2008-03-20 19:15   ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
2008-03-20 19:18     ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
2008-03-20 19:57     ` James Bottomley
2008-03-20 20:21       ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
2008-03-20 21:08       ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] [this message]
2008-03-20 21:17         ` James Bottomley
2008-03-20 22:18           ` Alexis Bruemmer
2008-03-26 14:34             ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
2008-03-29 22:39       ` Luben Tuikov
2008-03-29 22:33   ` Luben Tuikov
2008-03-31 20:23     ` Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]

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