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 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html