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Jens Axboe wrote: > >> But surely one of (not sure which) sync+async or async+sync may also be >> okay? >> Or would it? > > Async merge to sync request should be ok. But I wonder what happens with > hdparm, since it seems to trigger one of these tests. Very puzzling. > I'll dive in and take a look. The code (written 10 years ago) isn't the best in the world, and will be redone entirely for hdparm-7.0 this year. But right now, it essentially does this: loop: seek( to sector zero ); read( 2MBytes ); repeat loop for 3 seconds Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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