[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH 7/9] scsi_dh: Add support for SDEV_PASSIVE

[Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan us ibm com>]

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 05:45 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:19:30PM -0800, Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > The device does send these error messages currently, but it takes some
> > time to get the check condition back, which adds up the time to boot
> > especially when the # of LUNS is huge.
> > 
> > For example, in my test configuration, I had 40 luns, and the time
> > difference (with this patch and without it) to boot is 171 seconds and
> > 1426 seconds.
> 
> Was that with sync or async SCSI bus scanning?

I didn't change anything, IOW, i did default scanning, which I would
guess sync ?!


> 
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