Re: 2.6.18-rc2, problem to wake up spinned down drive?

[Tejun Heo]

Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > echo 1 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/1:0:0:0/power/state
> > > Really? I thought power/state takes 0/3 (for D0 and D3)
> > Yes, of course.  My mistake.  Sorry about the confusion.  The correct
> > command is 'echo -n 3 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/x:y:z:w/power/state'.
>
> (Sure?  :-)

The sleeping part is correct.  That will make libata put the disk to sleep.

> Now this did not work at all. The '-n 3' was probably
> correct, but when I tried to access the disk, then it
> did not spin up again (I waited for 5 minutes). There
> was no message on the console, either.
>
> But I could not reproduce this problem.
>
> How do I monitor that the disk spins down and up?

But the waking up part isn't.  You need to issue wake up explicitly by 
doing 'echo -n 0 > /sys/...'  I've been a complete idiot in this thread. 
 Please excuse me.  :-(

I think the solution to your problem is adjusting command timeout to 
more reasonable values which should make the problem more bearable. 
It'll take some time to figure out how to make timeouts more intelligent 
without breaking support for slow devices.  I'll work on that.

I'm attaching a temporary patch for the time being.

--
tejun
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index 98bd3aa..5676388 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ #define SD_MAX_DISKS	(((26 * 26) + 26 + 
 /*
  * Time out in seconds for disks and Magneto-opticals (which are slower).
  */
-#define SD_TIMEOUT		(30 * HZ)
+#define SD_TIMEOUT		(7 * HZ)
 #define SD_MOD_TIMEOUT		(75 * HZ)
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index b941670..45686f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ enum {
 	ATA_HOST_SIMPLEX	= (1 << 0),	/* Host is simplex, one DMA channel per host_set only */
 	
 	/* various lengths of time */
-	ATA_TMOUT_BOOT		= 30 * HZ,	/* heuristic */
-	ATA_TMOUT_BOOT_QUICK	= 7 * HZ,	/* heuristic */
-	ATA_TMOUT_INTERNAL	= 30 * HZ,
+	ATA_TMOUT_BOOT		= 10 * HZ,	/* heuristic */
+	ATA_TMOUT_BOOT_QUICK	= 5 * HZ,	/* heuristic */
+	ATA_TMOUT_INTERNAL	= 10 * HZ,
 	ATA_TMOUT_INTERNAL_QUICK = 5 * HZ,
 
 	/* ATA bus states */