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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: retry commands if DNR bit is not set
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 07:45:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3662f452-a027-5626-d1a3-9559d688408a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230201130920.GA30589@lst.de>

On 2/1/23 6:09 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 12:50:01PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Add a 'retry' argument to __nvme_submit_sync_cmd() to instruct
>> the function to not set the FAILFAST_DRIVER bit for the command,
>> causing it to be retried in nvme_decide_disposition() if the DNR
>> bit is not set in the command result.
>> And modify the authentication code to allow for retries.
> 
> This is missing the why.  And maybe we can find a better interace than
> a magic bool flag.

The bool addition is awful, I think it's about high time to refactor
that part of the interface rather than piling more junk on top. It's
at 8 arguments even without this change...

-- 
Jens Axboe




  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-01 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-01 11:50 [PATCH] nvme: retry commands if DNR bit is not set Hannes Reinecke
2023-02-01 13:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-02-01 13:55   ` Hannes Reinecke
2023-02-01 14:45   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-11-02  7:36 Hannes Reinecke
2022-11-02  8:00 ` Chao Leng
2022-11-02 14:19   ` Hannes Reinecke

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