From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ewan Milne Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: Allow error handling timeout to be specified Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 08:43:11 -0400 Message-ID: <1368189791.3319.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Reply-To: emilne@redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26616 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752009Ab3EJMnr (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 May 2013 08:43:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke , michaelc@cs.wisc.edu On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 23:11 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > Introduce eh_timeout which can be used for error handling purposes. This > was previously hardcoded to 10 seconds in the SCSI error handling > code. However, for some fast-fail scenarios it is necessary to be able > to tune this as it can take several iterations (bus device, target, bus, > controller) before we give up. > > Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen > Thanks for posting this. It will be very helpful to have this capability, particularly when alternate paths to the device exist. Acked-by: Ewan D. Milne