Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx> writes: > > Really, the entire flush + retries etc.. should never, ever, be permitted > to take more than XX seconds total. Not 60 seconds per retry, but XX seconds > total for the original command + however many retries we can fit in there. I fully agree. Also please make that user limit settable use module_param too, not only sysfs. I recently had the pleasure to deal with a failing disk which started to spew errors already on device probing and it somewhat annoyed me that that slowed down boot up time that much. Perhaps the default during device probing should be also lower? -Andi -- 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
