From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
V Ganesh <ganesh@veritas.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-LVM@sistina.com,
mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request()
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:41:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001130214121.D18804@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14886.7367.247491.267120@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> <200011302005.eAUK5re01932@webber.adilger.net>
In-Reply-To: <200011302005.eAUK5re01932@webber.adilger.net>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:05:53PM -0700
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:05:53PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> the RAID and LVM make_request functions should be changed to do that
> instead (i.e. 0 on success, -ve on error, and maybe "1" if they do their
> own recursion to break the loop)?
We preferred to let the lowlevel drivers to handle error themselfs to
simplify the interface. The lowlevel driver needs to call buffer_IO_error
before returning in case of error.
Andrea
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-30 7:02 [bug] infinite loop in generic_make_request() V Ganesh
2000-11-30 9:24 ` [PATCH] " Neil Brown
2000-11-30 20:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-11-30 20:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2000-11-30 21:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-11-30 22:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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