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From: Michael Reed <mdr@sgi.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] mpt fusion - fibre channel target discovery	prematurely terminates
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:31:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4471F560.8050709@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1148139217.3529.19.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>



James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:59 -0500, Michael Reed wrote:
>> mpt_config() can return EAGAIN.  When this happens, fibre channel target
>> discovery can prematurely terminate with fewer than the total number of
>> targets discovered.  This patch detects EAGAIN and reschedules the scan
>> work.
>>
>> Generally, this situation only occurs when the lsiutil program is being
>> used to reset the board.
> 
> mpt_config() only returns EAGAIN when it's out of message frames.  That
> should be a very transient condition, so if this rarely occurs anyway,
> why not just put an msleep(10) on the condition and then retry?  It
> would save all the requeue logic.

It's not so transient during reset processing.  I've measured 10 to
15 seconds of elapsed time.  But, it always eventually succeeds.

Mike

> 
> James
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-22 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-18 19:59 [PATCH 1/6] mpt fusion - fibre channel target discovery prematurely terminates Michael Reed
2006-05-20 15:33 ` James Bottomley
2006-05-22 17:31   ` Michael Reed [this message]
2006-05-22 17:34     ` Michael Reed
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-19 23:41 Moore, Eric
2006-05-22 17:45 Moore, Eric
2006-05-22 17:57 ` James Bottomley
2006-05-22 18:05 ` Michael Reed
2006-05-22 18:15 Moore, Eric
2006-05-22 18:40 ` Michael Reed
2006-05-24 18:48   ` Michael Reed
2006-05-22 23:09 Moore, Eric

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