From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 13:54:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050609115433.GS5140@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118317904.5043.3.camel@mulgrave>
On Thu, Jun 09 2005, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:18 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > So use a req->retries instead of the fail fast flag?
> >
> > Would be fine. Some drivers are messing with ->errors for that anyways,
> > so would be nice to clean that up.
> >
> > It would need to be done _very_ carefully though!
>
> Actually, I think there's still a need for both. Fail fast implies more
> than simply no retry. In the SCSI case it should eventually mean fail
> the command before we begin transport recovery (at the moment, we simply
> use the command in transport recovery, however long it takes, and then
> return the failure).
I tend to agree, FAILFAST does have a use outside of normal retry logic.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-09 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-04 1:19 [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers Mike Christie
2005-06-04 16:07 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-05 7:15 ` Mike Christie
2005-06-05 9:41 ` [dm-devel] " christophe varoqui
2005-06-06 13:31 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-06-07 0:04 ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 7:01 ` [dm-devel] " Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-06-05 14:40 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-05 19:11 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-06 5:43 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-06 14:19 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 13:08 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-07 13:34 ` Tony Battersby
2005-06-07 16:34 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:38 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all blockpc " Tony Battersby
2005-06-07 18:43 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 15:59 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc " James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:07 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 19:26 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08 7:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-06 19:02 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-07 15:26 ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 18:23 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-08 15:41 ` Mike Christie
2005-06-09 0:08 ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-09 6:18 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-09 11:51 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-09 11:54 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2005-06-07 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-07 12:20 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 15:36 ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 15:45 ` [dm-devel] " Michael Christie
2005-06-07 16:26 ` Kai Makisara
2005-06-07 19:23 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:09 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-08 12:46 ` Mike Christie
2005-06-07 18:07 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 19:38 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08 3:00 ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-08 12:59 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08 14:50 ` Luben Tuikov
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