On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 08:52 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: [...] > > Any comments? Any clues on how to make the delay "smarter" to > > trigger only once during platform shutdown, but still trigger per > > -device when doing per-device hotswapping ? > > So, if this is actually an issue, sure, we can try to work around; > however, can we first confirm that this has any other consequences > than a SMART counter being bumped up? I'm not sure how meaningful > that is in itself. Seconded; especially as the proposed patch is way too invasive: we run single threaded on shutdown and making every disk wait 1s is going to drive enterprises crazy. I'm with Tejun: If the device replies GOOD to SYNCHRONIZE CACHE, that means we're entitled to assume all written data is safely on non-volatile media and any "essential housekeeping" can be redone if the power goes away. James -- 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
