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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2010-04-09 06:46:38 -0400
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>2010-05-14 17:08:02 -0400
commitb48d58f55aa1d2d0d12378e45663842d4021916e (patch)
tree6fe1afb742eef755f4d09022548b6d2d2f8e919e /include/linux
parent294440887b32c58d220fb54b73b7a58079b78f20 (diff)
libata: use longer 0xff wait if parallel scan is enabled
There are some SATA devices which take relatively long to get out of 0xff status after reset. In libata, this timeout is determined by ATA_TMOUT_FF_WAIT. Quantum GoVault is the worst requring about 2s for reliable detection. However, because 2s 0xff timeout can introduce rather long spurious delay during boot, libata has been compromising at the next longest timeout of 800ms for HHD424020F7SV00 iVDR drive. Now that parallel scan is in place for common drivers, libata can afford 2s 0xff timeout. Use 2s 0xff timeout if parallel scan is enabled. Please note that the chance of spurious wait is pretty slim w/ working SCR access so this will only affect SATA controllers w/o SCR access which isn't too common these days. Please read the following thread for more information on the GoVault drive. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/14545/focus=14663 Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/libata.h11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index 4fa748e9bc01..242eb2646101 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -256,12 +256,13 @@ enum {
256 ATA_TMOUT_INTERNAL_QUICK = 5000, 256 ATA_TMOUT_INTERNAL_QUICK = 5000,
257 ATA_TMOUT_MAX_PARK = 30000, 257 ATA_TMOUT_MAX_PARK = 30000,
258 258
259 /* FIXME: GoVault needs 2s but we can't afford that without 259 /*
260 * parallel probing. 800ms is enough for iVDR disk 260 * GoVault needs 2s and iVDR disk HHD424020F7SV00 800ms. 2s
261 * HHD424020F7SV00. Increase to 2secs when parallel probing 261 * is too much without parallel probing. Use 2s if parallel
262 * is in place. 262 * probing is available, 800ms otherwise.
263 */ 263 */
264 ATA_TMOUT_FF_WAIT = 800, 264 ATA_TMOUT_FF_WAIT_LONG = 2000,
265 ATA_TMOUT_FF_WAIT = 800,
265 266
266 /* Spec mandates to wait for ">= 2ms" before checking status 267 /* Spec mandates to wait for ">= 2ms" before checking status
267 * after reset. We wait 150ms, because that was the magic 268 * after reset. We wait 150ms, because that was the magic