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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Mark Goodwin <mgoodwin@redhat.com>
Cc: David Jeffery <dhjeffery@gmail.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Reduce amount of TURs sent in error recovery
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:59:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA298C8.9090409@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA250C7.60904@redhat.com>

On 04/10/2011 07:52 PM, Mark Goodwin wrote:
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> @@ -554,7 +554,10 @@ int scsi_dispatch_cmd(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd)
> cmd->result = (DID_NO_CONNECT << 16);
> scsi_done(cmd);
> } else {
> - rtn = host->hostt->queuecommand(cmd, scsi_done);
> + if (cmd->device->sdev_state == SDEV_ZOMBIE)
> + rtn = 0; /* will timeout so err handler will run */
> + else
> + rtn = host->hostt->queuecommand(cmd, scsi_done);
> }
>
> Would we want to consider adding this to the patch set too? It will allow
> affected sites to more easily tune their timeouts and redundancy config
> (i.e. echo zombie > /sys/block/sdX/device/state to simulate a failure).

You have someting like that already in the block layer with the 
io-timeout-fail sysfs setting.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-11  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-16 17:43 [PATCH RFC] Reduce amount of TURs sent in error recovery David Jeffery
2011-03-29 23:09 ` Mike Christie
2011-04-11  0:52 ` Mark Goodwin
2011-04-11  5:59   ` Mike Christie [this message]

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