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From: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
To: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: "jeykholt@cisco.com" <jeykholt@cisco.com>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"jre@nuovasystems.com" <jre@nuovasystems.com>,
	"ajoglekar@nuovasystems.com" <ajoglekar@nuovasystems.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/6] fnic: add fnic_scsi.c and fnic_io.h.
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:39:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B30A81.9020406@emulex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B30885.1010808@cs.wisc.edu>



Mike Christie wrote:
>> Well - what should be happening is - prior to the reset or as part of
>> it, the fc transport fc_remote_port_delete() call should be made on all
>> those remote ports that connectivity is about to be terminated on.  This
>> will place all the associated targets/luns on those rports into a
>> blocked state, and start the devloss timer on them.  This will suspend
>> the eh path as well.  Thus, things suspend until either the driver/fcoe
> 
> What do you mean by that? For lpfc it will or for this driver? This
> driver does not have that block call like lpfc_block_error_handler, so
> if the rport event occurs after the scsi eh is running we do not suspend
> the eh.
> 
> So below I am saying we should make the lpfc_block_error_handler
> functionality and the equivalent in the qla2xxx and mpfc common so
> libfc/fcoe and fnic can use it.

Well there's successive layers of the onion here. And your right, one of 
them is the block_error_handler.  Agreed, all of this should be common.

-- james s


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-25 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-23  2:51 [RFC][PATCH 0/6] fnic: initial submission of driver for FCoE HBA jeykholt
2008-08-23  2:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/6] fnic: add main file with module infrastructure, etc jeykholt
2008-08-23  2:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/6] fnic: add fnic_scsi.c and fnic_io.h jeykholt
2008-08-25 18:22   ` Mike Christie
2008-08-25 19:15     ` James Smart
2008-08-25 19:31       ` Mike Christie
2008-08-25 19:39         ` James Smart [this message]
2008-08-25 21:01           ` Joe Eykholt
2008-08-25 21:51             ` Mike Christie
2008-08-25 21:55               ` Mike Christie
2008-08-28  1:31                 ` Abhijeet Joglekar
2008-08-25 18:41   ` Mike Christie
2008-08-25 19:17     ` James Smart
2008-08-25 19:38       ` Mike Christie
2008-08-23  2:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/6] fnic: Add fnic_fcs.c and fnic_attr.c jeykholt
2008-08-23  2:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/6] fnic: add resource, interrupt, and firmware interfaces jeykholt
2008-08-23  2:52 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/6] fnic: add queue interfaces jeykholt
2008-08-23  2:53 ` [RFC][PATCH 6/6] fnic: add Makefile, patch Kconfig, MAINTAINERS, pci_ids.h jeykholt

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