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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Greg Joyce <gjoyce@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, kbusch@kernel.org, axboe@fb.com,
	sagi@grimberg.me, hare@suse.de, dwagner@suse.de,
	msuchanek@suse.de, jonathan.derrick@linux.dev,
	okozina@redhat.com, nilay@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] nvme: retry security commands if media not ready
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 14:43:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241003124345.GA16754@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dbfd87e4900bea3a28ac46f5abcfb39ef2c13fc1.camel@linux.ibm.com>

On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 11:51:56AM -0500, Greg Joyce wrote:
> If we cache the timeout value(s) in nvme_ctrl then it may be possible
> to just eliminate nvme_get_timeout() entirely. Is this the approach
> that you were thinking?

Yes.

> I'm a little confused about what you're saying about the timeout.
> nvme_enable_ctrl() does determine the correct timeout value and passes
> it to nvme_wait_ready() but NVME_CSTS_RDY is set well before the media
> is ready (if CC.CRIME is set). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be
> any controller status that indicates when the media is ready. I thought
> about having nvme_wait_ready() wait the whole timeout if CC.CRIME is
> set, but I think that is contrary to intent of CC.CRIME. And on the SSD
> that I'm looking at the timeout is 15 seconds which would be a pretty
> big hit to boot time.

What I mean is to simply set a timer for the controller ready timeout,
fire it when we set CC.EN and then the time sets a new media ready
flag in ctrl->flags.  Then only retry when this flag is not set.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-03 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-30 16:48 [PATCH 0/1] nvme: add retry for media not ready error gjoyce
2024-09-30 16:48 ` [PATCH 1/1] nvme: retry security commands if media not ready gjoyce
2024-10-02  8:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-02 16:51     ` Greg Joyce
2024-10-03 12:43       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-10-03 13:30         ` Greg Joyce
2024-10-03 14:41           ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-03 23:35             ` Greg Joyce
2024-10-04  5:41               ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-10-04  7:22                 ` Nilay Shroff
2024-10-04 12:24                   ` Christoph Hellwig

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