On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:46:34PM -0700, 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.
But what starts the "notification of hotswap"? Is this driven by the
user somehow, or is it a hardware event that happens out of the blue?
> 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.
What generates the hotswap event?
thanks,
greg k-h
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