Re: [PATCH v2][RFC] scsi_transport_fc: Implement I_T nexus reset

[Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>]

On 03/07/2013 02:20 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 03/07/2013 02:13 PM, Jeremy Linton wrote:
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>> On 3/7/2013 1:19 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
>>> What happens for lpfc? It seems __fc_remote_port_delete ends up calling the
>>> fast io fail code right away and that sets FC_RPORT_FAST_FAIL_TIMEDOUT. We
>>> will then call lpfc_terminate_rport_io which only will send aborts for the
>>> commands. We will then call fc_block_scsi_eh above and that returns
>>> FAST_IO_FAIL and we will pass that back up to the scsi eh right away.
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>> 	For lpfc, you never get to the code. Or rather when I was testing it, I
>> couldn't find any way to propagate an error beyond the initial
>> lpfc_reset_flush_io_context() call in lpfc_device_reset_handler().
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>> 	That call pretty much always returns success indpependent of the remote
>> device because the firmware acks the context clear aborts, resulting in the
>> outstanding iocb count being zero (independent of both the mid layer status
>> and the actual device state).
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> Your lpfc patch fixes that right?
> 

Nevermind. Found your patch. It looks like it does fix that problem.