-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/17/2013 03:33 PM, Todd E Brandt wrote: > The essential issue behind hard disks' lengthy resume time is the > ata port driver blocking until the ATA port hardware is finished > coming online. So the kernel isn't really doing anything during all > those seconds that the disks are resuming, it's just blocking until > the hardware says it's ready to accept commands. Applying this > patch set I have been working in a similar direction and have patches to follow. Instead of backgrounding the start in sd_resume, I have removed it entirely, and background the resume at the ata port layer, as well as avoid resuming Power on in Standby disks entirely. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSevKEAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75FFkIAL8mwXOuuNvY5GoppHVMcweC EOBz6t2Xmc/TsGYr9u4kRVXbf3G0trSM9dj/XSJ6p+Dj/su/vJ69yKxp7sUPidgz zqjfKlG+myMQIaAO+tPGXvMcmT74BXjgjobZw2lUyLyRPLD9elDGmrDA5ZXZ+hiz hzSx4gOC57j+sK/pmoZ7U/CWeWYEYQ+J9xBXm0hzbBbSTjpzVsR0T+7xU+WVkeX0 Ox++FFBZp2b1xJgaREurRv1mORx/GJ+PfSETb49P5BWaWW+QVwOEhWOX/JQNc/Pp ANJmttP4WPvlRV0X3hD6FvAYSnu1qbwwGOiP/j5g7mklyfm5alA0jcuahc1w5tI= =9KhA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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