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From: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] scsi: Handle MLQUEUE busy response in scsi_send_eh_cmnd
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:55:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <516C7765.8020801@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366058730.7609.8.camel@dabdike>

On 04/15/2013 03:45 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 13:39 -0500, wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>> In scsi_send_eh_cmnd(), this fix will check the return code of queuecomamnd
>> when sending commands and retry for a bit if the driver returns a
>> busy response.
> 
> This is already handled by the timeout, I think.  If a driver
> continuously returns MLQUEUE BUSY, then we'll fail the request after the
> timeout on the command expires.

If we get a timeout in scsi_send_eh_cmnd we call scsi_abort_eh_cmnd. If the
abort works, we return FAILED out of scsi_send_eh_cmnd, which results in
no retry being performed, since scsi_eh_tur only retries once and
only if NEEDS_RETRY is returned. Or am I missing something?

Thanks,

Brian

-- 
Brian King
Power Linux I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center



  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-15 18:39 [PATCH 0/1] scsi: Handle MLQUEUE busy response in scsi_send_eh_cmnd wenxiong
2013-04-15 18:39 ` [PATCH 1/1] " wenxiong
2013-04-15 20:45 ` [PATCH 0/1] " James Bottomley
2013-04-15 21:55   ` Brian King [this message]
2013-04-15 22:33     ` James Bottomley
2013-04-16  0:09       ` wenxiong
2013-04-16 15:12       ` Brian King

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