Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 2/4] block: add queue runtime pm callbacks

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Lin Ming wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 May 2012, Lin Ming wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> > I may have left some parts out from this brief description.  Hopefully
> >> > you'll be able to figure out the general idea and get it to work.
> >>
> >> All journal threads and flusher thread of the disk need to be freezed
> >> before suspend and thaw after resume.
> >
> > Why?  If any of those threads needs to write something to the disk
> > while the disk is suspended, the disk will simply be resumed.
> 
> When tested the patches, I found that kjournald and flusher thread
> frequently resume the disk.
> 
> I'm not familiar with journal.
> Are the journal threads still need to be in active state when the disk
> is already suspended?

I don't know the answers.  Maybe Jens can tell us.

Ideally, a rotating disk wouldn't be suspended unless all the dirty 
blocks were already flushed and the journal was up-to-date.  For an 
SSD, frequently suspending and resuming doesn't matter quite so much.  
This may come down to a matter of setting the right value for the 
autosuspend timeout.

Alan Stern

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