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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:43:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615154313.GA25397@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40CF1852.6030306@adaptec.com>

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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) 

so I can see the point of a new level of error handling function pointer,
which gets called on timeout expiry and which can return if the mid layer
needs to go into eh thread or not, or if the timeout deserves an extension.



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-15 15:43 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
2004-06-15 15:46       ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:49         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-15 15:43     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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
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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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