Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262176AbTE0BBv (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2003 21:01:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262182AbTE0BBu (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2003 21:01:50 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:12236 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262176AbTE0BBt (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2003 21:01:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver From: Alan Cox To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jens Axboe , James Bottomley , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1053994617.17128.27.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 27 May 2003 01:16:58 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 16 On Llu, 2003-05-26 at 22:34, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Even if we drop our timeouts from 30 seconds (or whatever they are now) > down to just a few seconds, that's a _loooong_ time, and we should be a > lot more proactive about things. Audio/video stuff tends to want things > with latencies in the tenth-of-a-second range, even when they buffer > things up internally to hide the worst cases. Many IDE drives will take several seconds to give up on a failing I/O because they do all the recovery themselves. IDE CD/DVD can be especially bad for this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/