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From: ming.lei@redhat.com (Ming Lei)
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Reset timeout for paused hardware
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 11:29:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190523032925.GA10601@ming.t460p> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190522174812.5597-1-keith.busch@intel.com>

On Wed, May 22, 2019@11:48:10AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> Hardware may temporarily stop processing commands that have
> been dispatched to it while activating new firmware. Some target
> implementation's paused state time exceeds the default request expiry,
> so any request dispatched before the driver could quiesce for the
> hardware's paused state will time out, and handling this may interrupt
> the firmware activation.
> 
> This two-part series provides a way for drivers to reset dispatched
> requests' timeout deadline, then uses this new mechanism from the nvme
> driver's fw activation work.

Just wondering why not freeze IO queues before updating FW?


Thanks,
Ming

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-23  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-22 17:48 [PATCH 0/2] Reset timeout for paused hardware Keith Busch
2019-05-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/2] blk-mq: provide way to reset rq deadline Keith Busch
2019-05-22 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] nvme: reset request timeouts during fw activation Keith Busch
2019-05-23 10:19   ` Ming Lei
2019-05-23 13:34     ` Keith Busch
2019-05-23 14:07       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-22 20:20 ` [PATCH 0/2] Reset timeout for paused hardware Bart Van Assche
2019-05-22 20:28   ` Keith Busch
2019-05-23 10:04     ` Bart Van Assche
2019-05-23  3:29 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2019-05-23  3:48   ` Keith Busch
2019-05-23 10:13     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-23 13:23       ` Keith Busch
2019-05-23 14:10         ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-05-23 14:19           ` Keith Busch

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