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Date:      Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:24:41 -0700
From:      Ravi Pokala <rpokala@mac.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r298011 - head/sys/cam/ata
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From: <owner-src-committers@freebsd.org> on behalf of Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Date: 2016-04-15, Friday at 16:15
To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r298011 - head/sys/cam/ata

>... The 60s value has always been nuts since even the largest caches on the slowest drives can be flushed in under a second. ...

I'm not so sure about that. I've got an HDD with 256MB cache; even if it were all sequential, flushing that to the media would likely take more than a second. If it were mostly random, it would be well over a second.

That said, I agree that a full minute is overkill.

-Ravi (rpokala@)

>Warner




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