Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:00:55AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I think it does hurt. > > - I have seen the case of MPT fusion drvier. It takes significantly more > time to come up if we choose to reset the device during initialization. > One of the reasons that we wait in a tight loop for the controller to > come up after a reset message. > > - Long back we fixed ips driver and I remember that the maintainer had > a similar issue with the reset of device. He did not want to reset the > device in normal boot because otherwise it took significantly longer > for the driver to initialize. > > - Just now Mike also confirmed that resetting the device definitely > hurts in terms of time. In the general case resets are trivial operations. In scsi land things are different. So a solution appropriate to that domain may be appropriate. Eric - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
