From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] laptop mode
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:49:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031011114913.GA516@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031009142632.GI1232@suse.de>
Hi!
> > Right now laptopmode/aam is just a suspect. There are still 1-2 other
> > small patches against IDE which could be the reason. We've dropped
> > laptopmode/aam for the time being to see if the folks seeing repeatable
> > corruption suddenly start behaving again.
>
> aam patch is far more risky, it's a far more likely suspect. That patch
> never reall did go out of beta. Dropping laptop-mode and aam at the same
> time is bad engineering practice :).
>
> laptop-mode cannot cause corruption that cannot show otherwise.
Well, if fireballs have data-corrupting that happens just after spinup
(for example), I can see how laptop-mode affects that. W/o
laptop-mode, disk is spinning all the time so sleep bugs can not
manifest themselves. You add laptop-mode, and...
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-11 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200310091103.h99B31ug014566@hera.kernel.org>
2003-10-09 14:02 ` [PATCH] laptop mode Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:05 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:17 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-09 14:26 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-11 11:49 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-10-11 13:59 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-12 22:45 ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-10-14 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-10-09 14:11 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-09 14:21 ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-09 14:28 ` Dave Jones
2003-10-17 19:42 ` Jan Rychter
2003-10-18 12:52 ` Jens Axboe
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