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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, axboe@suse.de, albertcc@tw.ibm.com,
	lkosewsk@gmail.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] libata-eh-fw: implement new EH scheduling via timeout
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:36:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <443D8106.4000607@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1144762974340-git-send-email-htejun@gmail.com>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Implement new EH scheduling from timeout.  ata_scsi_timedout() also
> takes care of the race condition in which scsi_eh_schedule_qc() sets
> ATA_QCFLAG_EH_SCHEDULED but fails to acutally schedule EH for the qc
> because it loses to timeout.
> 
> A timeout is HSM violation condition.  New EH assumes that on a
> timeout the state of the controller and devices are unknown and
> dangerous.  So, all active commands are aborted and the port is
> frozen.  Note that commands which get aborted this way don't have its
> qc->err_mask set and its retries count will be compensated.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>

This is not always true:  With PCI IDE BMDMA devices, it is presumed 
that a DMA error will be handled by timeout.  For this case, the 
controller is in a known state.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-12 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-11 13:42 [PATCHSET 5/9] new EH framework, take 2 Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 02/16] libata-eh-fw: add new EH operations Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 01/16] libata-eh-fw: add flags for new EH Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 11/16] libata-eh-fw: implement new EH scheduling via timeout Tejun Heo
2006-04-12 22:36   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-04-13  2:40     ` Tejun Heo
2006-04-13  3:18       ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-13  3:36         ` Tejun Heo
2006-04-27 11:33           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-29 21:13             ` Alan Cox
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 08/16] libata-eh-fw: update ata_qc_from_tag() to enforce normal/EH qc ownership Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 12/16] libata-eh-fw: implement new EH scheduling from PIO Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 09/16] libata-eh-fw: implement new EH scheduling via error completion Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 10/16] libata-eh-fw: implement ata_eh_schedule_port() Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 03/16] libata-eh-fw: hold host_set lock while finishing internal qc Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 04/16] libata-eh-fw: clear IRQ in ata_std_postreset() Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 07/16] libata-eh-fw: implement ata_port_freeze() Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 06/16] libata-eh-fw: use special reserved tag and qc for internal commands Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 05/16] libata-eh-fw: clear SError in ata_std_postreset() Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 15/16] libata-eh-fw: update SCSI command completion path for new EH Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 13/16] libata-eh-fw: activate ->error_handler Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 16/16] libata-eh-fw: update ata_interrupt() to handle frozen port properly Tejun Heo
2006-04-12 22:40   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-13  2:59     ` Tejun Heo
2006-04-11 13:42 ` [PATCH 14/16] libata-eh-fw: activate ->post_internal_cmd Tejun Heo
2006-04-12 22:41 ` [PATCHSET 5/9] new EH framework, take 2 Jeff Garzik

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