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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: "Moore, Eric" <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>,
	"Stephens, Larry" <Larry.Stephens@lsi.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dgilbert@interlog.com,
	DL-MPT Fusion Linux <DL-MPTFusionLinux@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: how to handle QUEUE_FULL/SAM_STAT_TASK_SET_FULL in userspace?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:18:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195165080.9519.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473CC148.9050106@nortel.com>

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 15:59 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Moore, Eric wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 15, 2007 12:10 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> >>Does this status mean that the command needs to be retried by the 
> >>userspace app, that it has already been retried by the lower 
> >>levels and 
> >>is now completed, or something else entirely?
> 
> > The midlayer is retrying the command.  I pointed you to the code in the
> > previous email.
> 
> James Smart just indicated that the midlayer was not retrying the 
> command because it's sgio.  Is he mistaken?

No.  When the command goes via SG_IO it bypasses all return status
processing (and QUEUE_FULL/BUSY is a return status).  When it's
submitted in the normal way (i.e. via a ULD) then the mid-layer
processes these returns to a retry strategy.

> If the midlayer is retrying the command, then what should the 
> application do when it receives that status?

James



  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-15 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-12 19:54 how to handle QUEUE_FULL/SAM_STAT_TASK_SET_FULL in userspace? Chris Friesen
2007-11-13 22:04 ` Chris Friesen
2007-11-13 22:34   ` Moore, Eric
2007-11-14 17:23     ` Chris Friesen
2007-11-14 22:45       ` Moore, Eric
2007-11-15 19:09         ` Chris Friesen
2007-11-15 19:43           ` James Smart
2007-11-15 19:59             ` Moore, Eric
2007-11-15 19:57           ` Moore, Eric
2007-11-15 21:59             ` Chris Friesen
2007-11-15 22:18               ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-11-15 22:35                 ` Moore, Eric
2007-11-15 22:47                   ` James Bottomley

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