From: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
To: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Block I/O while SG reset operation in progress - midlayer portion
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:11:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224201151.GA30144@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FF39C0.7080509@emulex.com>
James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com> wrote:
> This is the midlayer portion of the patch
>
> This patch ensures that i/o is stopped while an eh handler is being
> processed. It adds a new flag, set by the async reset callers, which
> augments the host-in-reset checks and stops i/o. The async reset
> callers are already synchronized to hold off until the error thread is
> no longer running.
Why the new flag instead of calling scsi_host_set_state(shost,
SHOST_RECOVERY) or a new state if you want different behavior?
Not using the state model but still doing recovery actions may run into
issues if these happen while someone tries to remove a host.
-andmike
--
Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-24 16:52 [PATCH 1/2] Block I/O while SG reset operation in progress - midlayer portion James Smart
2006-02-24 20:11 ` Mike Anderson [this message]
2006-02-24 22:35 ` James Smart
2006-02-28 7:09 ` Mike Anderson
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