Re: Suspend/Resume

Pavel Machek
2005-05-09T10:13:50Z

Hi!

> > I don't know, depends on what Jeff/James think of this approach. There
> > are many different way to solve this problem. I let the scsi bus called
> > suspend/resume for the devices on that bus, and let the scsi host
> > adapter perform any device dependent actions. The pci helpers are less
> > debatable.
> >
> > Jeff/James? Here's a patch that applies to current git.
>
> The patch looks fine as far as it goes ... however, shouldn't we be
> spinning *internal* suspended drives down as well like IDE does (i.e. at
> least the sd ULD needs to be a party to the suspend)? Of course this is

In IDE we do that to reliably flush drive caches... If write caching
actually works on SCSI, we should not need that hacks.
Pavel
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