linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Asynchronous suspend/resume

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0912211551580.2643-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:54:36 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Asynchronous suspend/resume - test results

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Do you think it's a good idea to mark all SCSI devices as async?  Well, for
> testing it probably is, but I doubt in general.

That would be a good question to post on Linux-SCSI.

In most respects it's probably okay.  But some people with large disk
farms might not like it if their drives should suddenly start to spin
up (with a correspondingly large power draw) all at the same time.

Alan Stern

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