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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Neela.Kolli@engenio.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	mike.miller@hp.com, fastboot@lists.osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization issue fix
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:39:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14py7u88m.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060626171659.GG8985@in.ibm.com> (Vivek Goyal's message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:16:59 -0400")

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:00:55AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> I think it does hurt.
>
> - I have seen the case of MPT fusion drvier. It takes significantly more
>   time to come up if we choose to reset the device during initialization.
>   One of the reasons that we wait in a tight loop for the controller to 
>   come up after a reset message.
>
> - Long back we fixed ips driver and I remember that the maintainer had
>   a similar issue with the reset of device. He did not want to reset the
>   device in normal boot because otherwise it took significantly longer
>   for the driver to initialize.
>
> - Just now Mike also confirmed that resetting the device definitely
>   hurts in terms of time.

In the general case resets are trivial operations.  In scsi land 
things are different.  So a solution appropriate to that domain may
be appropriate.

Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-26 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-23 21:01 [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] introduce crashboot kernel command line parameter Vivek Goyal
2006-06-23 21:04 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization issue fix Vivek Goyal
2006-06-24  6:55   ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-24 11:19     ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-24 11:30       ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-24 12:08         ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-24 17:13           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26  2:11             ` [Fastboot] " Maneesh Soni
2006-06-26 13:35               ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 14:17                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 15:32                   ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 16:00                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 16:13                       ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2006-06-26 16:35                         ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 16:38                         ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 16:51                           ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2006-06-26 17:04                             ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 17:24                               ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 17:22                             ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 17:52                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 18:18                               ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 18:51                               ` [Fastboot] " Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2006-06-26 19:21                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 19:43                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 21:24                                   ` [Fastboot] " Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2006-06-26 19:36                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 17:16                       ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 17:31                         ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 17:39                         ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2006-06-26 17:56                           ` James Bottomley
2006-06-26 18:23                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-27  2:42                   ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization?issue fix Horms
2006-06-26  9:09             ` Horms
2006-06-26 13:45               ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-06-27  2:30                 ` Horms
     [not found] ` <E1FttEj-0002JH-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
2006-06-23 22:39   ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] introduce crashboot kernel command line parameter Vivek Goyal
2006-06-24  6:55 ` Andrew Morton

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