From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:42:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615154223.GA13780@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40CF1852.6030306@adaptec.com>
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:40:02AM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> >to me it somewhat sounds like the wrong approach.
> >I'm all for the LLDD to be able to influence the timeout value, but I
> >consider it a bad mistake to make every driver reinvent timeout
> >*handling*.
>
> This has very little to do with the timeout _value_, and it has
> all to do with *recovery* which is a beast on its own as far as transport
> protocols are concerned, especially over non-native interconnects (iSCSI,
> USB,
> RDMA). I believe I did mention this at the end of the text.
> (mea culpa it was kind of a long text)
That's why the plan is to move it into the transport class slowly. Remeber
there are much more SPI drivers than just aic7xxx/aic79xx ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-15 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-15 15:02 [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:08 ` Signed-off-by: added [Re: [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure] Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-06-15 15:27 ` [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 15:40 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:42 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-15 15:46 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-15 15:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 15:48 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-15 16:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 16:24 ` Doug Ledford
2004-06-15 16:27 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 16:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 18:07 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:31 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-15 18:15 ` Mike Anderson
2004-06-15 18:37 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 19:20 ` Mike Anderson
2004-06-15 19:52 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 20:57 ` Mike Anderson
2004-06-15 22:00 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 22:31 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 22:13 ` Doug Ledford
2004-06-15 19:12 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 19:54 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 15:27 ` Mike Anderson
2004-06-16 15:37 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 15:48 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-16 15:58 ` James Bottomley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-16 16:58 Smart, James
2004-06-16 17:04 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 18:58 ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-16 19:17 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 17:10 Smart, James
2004-06-16 17:21 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 17:33 Smart, James
2004-06-16 17:38 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 18:05 Smart, James
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