Hello, Gwendal.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:36:52PM -0800, Gwendal Grignou wrote:
> Won't this patch defeat staggered spinup at resume? If you have a jbod
> with a smallish power supply, with a 12V rail designed for the steady
> state and 1 or 2 devices spinning up at once, you may be in trouble
> when all the disks will want to spinup in same second.

Yeah, I think it would.  We never fully solved the staggered spinup
problem and it probably is too late to invest into proper mechanism
for that.  I think an easy workaround would be, say, have a kernel
param which limits the max number of concurrent async wakeups and set
the value to something reasonable - say, 2, which should give us most
of benefits of async wakeup in vast majority of cases while avoiding
blowing up PSUs on larger setups.

Thanks.

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tejun
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