Re: [PATCH 02/11] libata-eh: implement ata_ering

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Tejun Heo wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>>> little bit more complex (it has more moving parts) and it would be
>>> difficult to define/tune speed down or any other error handling (say,
>>> turning off NCQ) criteria.  But, I might be planning too much.
>> The log problem is that you can get 32 errors very fast (doesn't take
>> much with multiple outstanding commands)
> 
> The current EH implementation records one error per EH run.  It just
> combines all failed commands and record it as single entry.  As each EH
> run usually takes at least several seconds, 32 slots should give several
> minutes worth of history even if things are pretty bad.
> 
>> so you have to choose which
>> info to throw away - the history or the detail in the commands 
> 
> Yeap.  And I also agree that ering is pretty inefficient way to spend
> 512 bytes of memory.

Overall its not a huge issue.  As long as we aren't constantly
allocating and freeing that 512 bytes...

	Jeff



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