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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:41:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42A711BC.9020108@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050607182317.GA12959@us.ibm.com>

Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:26:16AM -0500, Michael Christie wrote:
> 
>>Quoting Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>:
> 
> 
>>>Why can't the retries be passed down via a new blk req->retries?
>>>
>>
>>Is that all that is needed for dm-multipath? I thought this would be a good time
>>to add some code to allow the finer grained control of retries that could also
>>be used by dm and md. For example do you only want to retry certain failures X
>>numbeer of times?
> 
> 
> I was looking/thinking about the scsi_scan retries not multipath.

And I was hoping the same code/framework can be used for scsi, DM, MD, 
SG_IO and all other block layer drivers.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-08 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-04  1:19 [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers Mike Christie
2005-06-04 16:07 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-05  7:15   ` Mike Christie
2005-06-05  9:41     ` [dm-devel] " christophe varoqui
2005-06-06 13:31       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-06-07  0:04         ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07  7:01           ` [dm-devel] " Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-06-05 14:40     ` James Bottomley
2005-06-05 19:11       ` James Bottomley
2005-06-06  5:43         ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-06 14:19           ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 13:08             ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-07 13:34               ` Tony Battersby
2005-06-07 16:34                 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:38                   ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all blockpc " Tony Battersby
2005-06-07 18:43                     ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 15:59               ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc " James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:07                 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 19:26                   ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08  7:09                     ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-06 19:02     ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-07 15:26       ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 18:23         ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-08 15:41           ` Mike Christie [this message]
2005-06-09  0:08             ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-09  6:18               ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-09 11:51                 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-09 11:54                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 12:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-07 12:20     ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 15:36       ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 15:45         ` [dm-devel] " Michael Christie
2005-06-07 16:26           ` Kai Makisara
2005-06-07 19:23             ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:09         ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-08 12:46           ` Mike Christie
2005-06-07 18:07 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 19:38   ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08  3:00     ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-08 12:59       ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08 14:50         ` Luben Tuikov

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