From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: David Zeuthen <david@fubar.dk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Add support for uevents on block device idle changes
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:39:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac3eb2510911181339q616c56f7rd31b93caed0286c5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091118213526.GB16630@srcf.ucam.org>
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 22:35, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:29:23PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>
>> I guess, the "idle_since" file could be made poll()able, and throw an
>> event when the idle time is re-set to 0, so the value checking needs
>> only to happen as long we wait for the disk to become idle. As long as
>> it's busy anyway, the rare wakeups should not matter much. :)
>
> That'd be a userspace wakeup every time something gets submitted to the
> block device, which sounds far from ideal...
No, you would only poll() when you reached the timeout and the disk
entered the idle state. This can not happen more frequently than the
timeout itself.
Kay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 14:37 Matthew Garrett
2009-11-17 15:55 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-17 16:09 ` David Zeuthen
2009-11-17 18:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-18 19:30 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-18 19:40 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-18 19:47 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-18 19:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-18 20:03 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-18 20:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-18 21:06 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-18 21:29 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-18 21:35 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-18 21:39 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2009-11-18 21:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-18 21:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-18 21:40 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-19 11:09 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-19 13:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-19 13:29 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-19 14:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-19 14:25 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-19 14:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-19 14:34 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-19 14:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-19 15:00 ` Kay Sievers
2009-11-20 20:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-22 23:37 ` Pavel Machek
2009-11-23 14:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-23 14:17 ` Jens Axboe
2009-11-23 14:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-23 14:31 ` Jens Axboe
2009-11-23 14:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-23 19:50 ` Jens Axboe
2009-11-23 19:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-12-11 21:20 ` [RFC] Add support for events " Matthew Garrett
2009-11-18 22:10 ` [PATCH] [RFC] Add support for uevents " Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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