From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How many retries to allow?
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:25:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DF4D6E.5060509@panasas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0809251616260.2181-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Alan Stern wrote:
> James and Boaz:
>
> Here's a question. Suppose a device returns NOT READY sense key
> repeatedly. How long should the request be retried before we give up?
> If we never give up then the request will never finish, so the caller
> will hang.
>
> Alan Stern
>
I always thought request->retries was for that. Perhaps I misunderstood.
I think there should be one user settable global counter that will limit
all retries of any kind.
Just my $0.017
Boaz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-28 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-25 20:18 How many retries to allow? Alan Stern
2008-09-28 9:25 ` Boaz Harrosh [this message]
2008-09-28 15:44 ` Alan Stern
2008-09-28 16:16 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-09-29 21:14 ` Alan Stern
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