Re: [PATCH 05/15] lpfc: Fix NVMEI driver not decrementing counter causing bad rport state.

Hannes Reinecke
2017-05-11T06:19:00Z

On 05/10/2017 09:07 PM, James Smart wrote:
> During driver boot, a latency in the NVMET driver
> side causes the incoming NVMEI PRLI to get rejected by the
> NVMET driver. When this happens, the NVMEI driver runs
> out of PRLI retries. Bouncing the link does not fix the
> situation.
>
> If the NVMEI driver decides, on PRLI completion
> failures, to retry the PRLI, always decrement the
> fc4_prli_sent counter. This allows the PRLI completion
> to resolve to UNMAPPED when NVMET rejects the PRLI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
> ---
> drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_els.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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