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On 10/16/02 04:46, Steven Dake wrote:
> The data/telecoms I've talked to require disk hotswap times of less then 
> 20 msec from notification of hotwap to blue led (a light used to 
> indicate the device can be removed).  They would like 10 msec if it 
> could be done.  This is because of how long it takes on a surprise 
> extraction for the hardware to send the signal vs the user to disconnect 
> the hardware.

I'm just surprised that the SAF-TE processers will respond this quickly.

> For legacy systems such as SAFTE hotswap, polling through sg at 10 msec 
> intervals would be extremely painful because of all the context 
> switches.  A timer scheduled every 10 msec to send out a SCSI message 
> and handle a response if there is a hotswap event is a much better course.

100 context switchs a second isn't that much is it?

I'll adjust safte-monitor from its default 2 second polling down
to 10msec and see what the result is.

~mc

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