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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] convert block layer drivers to blkerr error values
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:02:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124917327.5116.62.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430CDDA5.5000705@cs.wisc.edu>

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 15:50 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> Would it be good then to also extend the fail fast flag to a bit map so 
> dm-multipath can tell scsi that scsi should handle device errors?

You mean have a REQ_FASTFAIL_{DEV,XPRT,DRV}?  The slight problem is that
we're already closing in on the limit for request flags (we're already
up to 26, this would take us to 28 with the maximum being 32) so I'll
defer to Jens on that.

James



      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-24 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-24  9:03 [RFC PATCH 1/4] convert block layer drivers to blkerr error values Mike Christie
2005-08-24  9:49 ` Mike Christie
2005-08-24 19:21 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-08-24 19:27   ` Mike Christie
2005-08-24 19:32   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-24 19:42     ` Mike Christie
2005-08-24 20:33   ` James Bottomley
2005-08-24 20:50     ` Mike Christie
2005-08-24 21:02       ` James Bottomley [this message]

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