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SubjectRe: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk
Mark Lord wrote:
> Heh.. I haven't instrumented it yet, but I did discover a bit more about
> it:
>
> The Power-Off_Retract_Count incrmenents *only* when there's data in the
> on-drive write-cache. So if I haven't written anything significantly large
> before suspending, then it often does NOT increment the retract counter.
>
> But if I copy a couple of multi-MB files around and then suspend (to RAM),
> the retract count gets incremented.
>
> So I've now just stuck "hdparm -F /dev/sda" into my suspend script,
> and that cures the problem completely for me. "-F" does a FLUSH_CACHE,
> and requires a recent copy of hdparm.
>
> Perhaps libata should also do a FLUSH_CACHE before any STANDBYNOW command,
> prior to entering STR, which is what my script is currently now doing..
>
> I'll instrument libata and see what the current sequence is.

Hmmmm.. libata should issue FLUSH CACHE on STR too. sd_suspend() and
sd_shutdown() are pretty similar after all.

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tejun
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