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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@wdc.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: retrigger ANA log update if group descriptor isn't found
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:03:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201208140352.GB2919@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201207154650.GB3679937@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdc.com>

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 07:46:50AM -0800, Keith Busch wrote:
> > But as I just outlined it just papers over buggy controllers.  I really
> > don't think we should just silently do that.
> 
> Okay, that's fine with me too. I agree with you on what the correct
> event sequence should be, but I just thought this looks like a fairly
> harmless work-around.

I see three major downsides:

 (1) it papers over our host side bug where we do not process the
     different AENs in the order that the controller generated them
 (2) the code is black magic as there is no indicator why this condition
     would happen

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-08 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-05 15:29 [PATCH] nvme: retrigger ANA log update if group descriptor isn't found Hannes Reinecke
2020-12-07 15:31 ` Keith Busch
2020-12-07 15:34   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-07 15:46     ` Keith Busch
2020-12-08 14:03       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-12-08 19:17         ` Keith Busch
2020-12-09  7:35           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-07 15:51     ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-01-14  3:13 ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-03-25 10:55   ` George, Martin
2021-03-25 21:54     ` Keith Busch
2021-03-25 22:20       ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-04-02 16:49 ` Christoph Hellwig

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