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SubjectRe: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> I'd be surprised if the device would not obey the 7 second timeout rule
>>> that seems to be set in stone and not allow more dirty in-drive cache
>>> than it could flush out in approximately that time.
>> AFAIK Windows flush-cache timeout is 30 seconds, not 7 as with other
>> commands...
>
> Ok, 7 seconds for FLUSH_CACHE would have been nice for us too though, as
> it would pretty much guarentee lower latencies for random writes and
> write back caching. The concern is the barrier code, of course. I guess
> I should do some timings on potential worst case patterns some day. Alan
> may have done that sometime in the past, iirc.

FWIW: According to the drive guys (Eric M, among others), FLUSH CACHE
will "probably" be under 30 seconds, but pathological cases might even
extend beyond that.

Definitely more than 7 seconds in less-than-pathological cases,
unfortunately...

The SCSI layer /should/ already take this (30 second timeout) into
account, for SYNCHRONIZE CACHE (and thus FLUSH CACHE for libata) but I'm
too slack to check at the moment.

Jeff



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