Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: stop SSD (non-rotational) disks before reboot

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 06:31:25PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > For SSDs, I don't think an extra stop should ever be an issue.
> > 
> > Extra shutdowns will usually cause additional P/E cycles.
> 
> I am not so sure.  We're talking about enforcing clean shutdowns here
> (from the SSD PoV).
> 
> A system reboot takes enough time that the SSD is likely to do about the
> same amount of P cycles commiting to FLASH any important data that it
> would trigger by a shutdown sequence, simply because it should not keep
> important data in RAM for too long.  By extension, it would not increase
> E cycles either.
> 
> OTOH, unclean shutdowns *always* cause extra P/E, and that's if you're
> lucky enough for it to not cause anything much worse.

The point is - with a normal system that doesn't required your odd
reboot method we'll normally not shut down the SSD at all, and that
won't require a P/E cycle.

But the whole thing is a moot point - if you quirk your system to
require a poweroff to reboot the kernel should trat it as a power off
as far as shutdown/remove callbacks are concerned and everything will
just work as intended.