From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] scsi_dh_alua: Make stpg synchronous
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 11:59:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55507D74.1070908@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150511065523.GG30516@lst.de>
On 05/11/2015 08:55 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:42:14PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> We should be issuing STPG synchronously as we need to
>> evaluate the return code on failure.
>
> How does this fit into the calling convention? It seems like generally
> dm-mpath expects async execution of ->activate. If we don't actually need
> asynchronous activation we should remove it from all the drivers to have
> a consistent calling convention.
>
This is just an intermediate step, before the entire thing moves off
to a workqueue and becomes asynchronous again.
It's not meant to be as a standalone patch; I've just split it off
for easier review.
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-11 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-04 12:42 [PATCH 00/17] asynchronous ALUA device handler Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 01/17] scsi_dh: return individual errors in scsi_dh_activate() Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 11:34 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-11 6:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 02/17] scsi_dh_alua: Disable ALUA handling for non-disk devices Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 11:34 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-11 6:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 10:25 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 11:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 11:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 12:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 03/17] scsi_dh_alua: Use vpd_pg83 information Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 11:41 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-07 11:50 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 10:11 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 04/17] scsi_dh_alua: Improve error handling Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 11:48 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-07 11:52 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 13:19 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 05/17] scsi: remove scsi_show_sense_hdr() Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 11:49 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-11 6:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 06/17] scsi_dh_alua: use flag for RTPG extended header Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 11:52 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-11 6:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 07/17] scsi_dh_alua: Pass buffer as function argument Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 11:57 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-11 6:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 08/17] scsi_dh_alua: Make stpg synchronous Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 12:18 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-07 13:36 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 6:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 9:59 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2015-05-11 13:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 13:59 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 09/17] scsi_dh_alua: switch to scsi_execute() Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-06 9:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-06 9:58 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 10/17] scsi_dh_alua: Use separate alua_port_group structure Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 12:34 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-07 13:36 ` Bart Van Assche
2015-05-07 13:46 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-07 13:37 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 12:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 12:36 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 11/17] scsi_dh_alua: simplify sense code handling Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 6:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 14:52 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-12 8:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 12/17] scsi_dh_alua: parse target device id Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 13/17] scsi_dh_alua: revert commit a8e5a2d593cbfccf530c3382c2c328d2edaa7b66 Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 7:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 10:00 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 14/17] scsi_dh_alua: Use workqueue for RTPG Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-11 13:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-11 13:59 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-12 8:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13 9:10 ` Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 15/17] scsi_dh_alua: Recheck state on unit attention Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 16/17] scsi_dh_alua: update all port states Hannes Reinecke
2015-05-04 12:42 ` [PATCH 17/17] scsi_dh_alua: Update version to 2.0 Hannes Reinecke
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