On Mon, 10 Mar 2014, Dan Williams wrote: > > The only thing which is a bit concerning is that this doesn't have any > > throttling mechanism for simultaneous wakeups. Would this be able to > > blow up the PSU if used on a machine with a lot of spindles? > > Good point. The primary benefit is completing userspace resume > without needlessly waiting for the disk. For now I think it would be > enough to have a mutex to maintain one disk at a time. We can follow > on later with something more complex to enable a max simultaneous > spin-up tunable. Why? The existing code doesn't have anything like that. Alan Stern -- 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
