Pack of CAM improvements
Alexander Motin
mav at FreeBSD.org
Wed Feb 3 14:00:49 UTC 2010
James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
> At some point I hope to add support for staggered spin-ups, perhaps a
> loader.conf setting for people with more than 20-30 disks. At the
> 100-120 disk level it seems unlikely that any reasonable fixed delay
> would be reasonable.
I've just added Power Up In Stand-by (PUIS) feature support into CAM ATA
in HEAD. It is one of the ways to implement staggered spin-up for ATA
devices. Now CAM will spin-up no more then 4 of such devices at a time.
Another way, based on SATA hard-reset sequence, is more complicated
(especially when port multipliers used) and not supported yet.
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Alexander Motin
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