> above 1.5. Two timers are used to track command timeout in our test > software. The one in the user space is set to 6 seconds using alarm() > call while the one in the kernel (scsi timer) is set to 5 seconds. > These timeout values are probably too low to be realistic, but the > issue here is not about the timeout itself but to understand why it is A lot of drive commands seem to be set up on a seven second worst case > always user space timer expired before kernel timer. Since kernel > timer uses jiffies to track time, does this imply a kernel bug where > the time interrupts were lost or delay somehow? Do you know any know > problems related to command timeout in PATA Sil680? Alarm() is also handled by the same jiffies logic, so I suspect a bug in your test environment ? - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
