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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [SCSI PATCH] sd: max-retries becomes configurable
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:45:24 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348721124.2509.1.camel@dabdike> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq1y5jw9pfd.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 22:20 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> writes:
> 
> James> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 17:00 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> 
> >> drivers/scsi/sd.c | 4 ++++ drivers/scsi/sd.h | 2 +- 2 files changed,
> >> 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> James> I'm not opposed in principle to doing this (except that it should
> James> be a sysfs parameter like all our other controls),
> 
> Now that we're in that department. I never got any feedback on the
> following patch.
> 
> Hannes told me in person that he felt the eh_timeout belonged in
> scsi_device and not in the request queue. Whereas I favored making it a
> block layer tunable despite currently only being used by SCSI. Any
> opinions?

request_queue makes more sense to me because there was once a plan to
move all our timeout processing to block.  I think it got stalled
somewhere, but this would act as a reminder.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-27  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-24 21:00 [SCSI PATCH] sd: max-retries becomes configurable Jeff Garzik
2012-09-25  4:06 ` James Bottomley
2012-09-25  5:21   ` Jeff Garzik
2012-09-25 10:38     ` James Bottomley
2012-09-27  5:04       ` Jeff Garzik
2012-10-01  7:43       ` Ric Wheeler
2012-09-27  2:20   ` Martin K. Petersen
2012-09-27  4:45     ` James Bottomley [this message]
2012-09-28 18:39     ` Dan Williams

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