From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Dillow Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/14] ib_srp: Implement transport layer ping Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:50:05 -0500 Message-ID: <1324255806.17849.68.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> References: <201112011954.25811.bvanassche@acm.org> <201112012011.45444.bvanassche@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from matrix.voodoobox.net ([75.127.97.206]:37267 "EHLO matrix.voodoobox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752011Ab1LSAuQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:50:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201112012011.45444.bvanassche@acm.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Roland Dreier , Fujita Tomonori , Brian King On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 20:11 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Add a time-based transport layer test such that fail-over in a multipath > setup can happen quickly. Why should this be done in the kernel? multipathd already verifies all paths to a SCSI device are up and that the device is reachable. -- Dave Dillow National Center for Computational Science Oak Ridge National Laboratory (865) 241-6602 office