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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Steven Dake <sdake@mvista.com>
Cc: Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] [PATCHES] Advanced TCA Hotswap Support in Linux Kernel
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:54:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021015205402.GL15864@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAC7EAA.5020408@mvista.com>

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:46:34PM -0700, Steven Dake wrote:
> The data/telecoms I've talked to require disk hotswap times of less then 
> 20 msec from notification of hotwap to blue led (a light used to 
> indicate the device can be removed).  They would like 10 msec if it 
> could be done.  This is because of how long it takes on a surprise 
> extraction for the hardware to send the signal vs the user to disconnect 
> the hardware.

But what starts the "notification of hotswap"?  Is this driven by the
user somehow, or is it a hardware event that happens out of the blue?

> For legacy systems such as SAFTE hotswap, polling through sg at 10 msec 
> intervals would be extremely painful because of all the context 
> switches.  A timer scheduled every 10 msec to send out a SCSI message 
> and handle a response if there is a hotswap event is a much better course.

What generates the hotswap event?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-14 18:42 [ANNOUNCE] [PATCHES] Advanced TCA Hotswap Support in Linux Kernel Steven Dake
2002-10-15  0:59 ` Greg KH
2002-10-15 18:39   ` Steven Dake
2002-10-15 20:42     ` Greg KH
2002-10-15  5:29 ` Greg KH
2002-10-15 17:38   ` Steven Dake
2002-10-15 19:11     ` Michael Clark
2002-10-15 19:28       ` Steven Dake
2002-10-15 20:34         ` Greg KH
2002-10-15 20:46           ` Steven Dake
2002-10-15 20:54             ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-10-15 21:07               ` Steven Dake
2002-10-15 21:16                 ` Greg KH
2002-10-15 21:48                   ` Steven Dake
2002-10-16  1:05             ` Michael Clark
2002-10-15 20:52     ` Greg KH
     [not found]       ` <3DAC89FA.9000505@mvista.com>
2002-10-15 22:04         ` Greg KH

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