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From: torn5 <torn5@shiftmail.org>
To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Ext4 and scsi commands resubmission
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:41:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D19BEF6.5010007@shiftmail.org> (raw)

Hello all,

in open-iscsi, when network connectivity is lost, scsi commands that 
were in-flight at the moment of disconnection are failed to the SCSI layer.
These get resubmitted up to 5 times by the SCSI layer (or so is written 
in the open-iscsi docs) and after that they are held in the queue 
(device "blocked") until the network connection is restored.

Now the question is: when SCSI resubmits commands to a device, I suppose 
they go to the end of the queue for the device, and not at the head like 
they were. Am I right?
How do filesystems, and in particular ext4, react to that?
I suppose the ordering goes awry, barriers cannot succeed in this way, 
especially if they were submitted as real SCSI barriers (i.e. without 
using flush + command + flush workaround)

Thank you

             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-28 10:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-28 10:41 torn5 [this message]
2010-12-29  4:43 ` Ext4 and scsi commands resubmission Mike Christie

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