RE: [PATCH 6/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement an abort handler

KY Srinivasan
2014-07-11T14:49:17Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hannes Reinecke [mailto:hare@suse.de]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 2:53 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan; Christoph Hellwig
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org;
> ohering@suse.com; jbottomley@parallels.com; jasowang@redhat.com;
> apw@canonical.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement an abort handler
>
> On 07/11/2014 12:26 AM, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@infradead.org]
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 3:13 AM
> >> To: KY Srinivasan
> >> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> >> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; ohering@suse.com;
> >> jbottomley@parallels.com; jasowang@redhat.com; apw@canonical.com;
> >> linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement an abort
> >> handler
> >>
> >>
> >> Note that you could increase the timeout and/or implement an
> >> eh_timed_out handler that just returns BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER, but if the
> >> completion takes too long the expectation is that a command will
> >> eventually finish instead of beeing delayed by an unmound amount.
> >
> > I like this idea; I will implement a eh_timed_out_handler.
> >
> Something like this should be sufficient:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c index
> e71a0d7..630ae81 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c
> @@ -1468,6 +1468,12 @@ static int storvsc_get_chs(struct scsi_device
> *sdev, stru ct block_device * bdev,
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static enum blk_eh_timer_return
> +storvsc_timed_out_handler(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd) {
> + return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER;
> +}
> +
> static int storvsc_host_reset_handler(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
> {
> struct hv_host_device *host_dev = shost_priv(scmnd->device->host);
> @@ -1687,6 +1693,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template scsi_driver = {
> .name = "storvsc_host_t",
> .bios_param = storvsc_get_chs,
> .queuecommand = storvsc_queuecommand,
> + .eh_timed_out = storvsc_timed_out_handler,
> .eh_host_reset_handler = storvsc_host_reset_handler,
> .slave_alloc = storvsc_device_alloc,
> .slave_destroy = storvsc_device_destroy,
>
> Cheers,

Thanks Hannes. Based on Christoph's feedback I have implemented exactly this patch. It is under test on Azure.
I will be re-spinning and posting the patches shortly.

K. Y
>
> Hannes
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