From: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>
To: Ching Huang <ching2048@areca.com.tw>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dan.carpenter@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org,
colin.king@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] scsi: arcmsr: Add driver parameter cmd_timeout for scsi command timeout setting
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 11:05:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d84beeb7-b502-c465-ea39-7d85bdcdb72f@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1525761818.4261.12.camel@Centos6.3-64>
On 05/08/2018 08:43 AM, Ching Huang wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 14:32 +0800, Ching Huang wrote:
>> On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 01:41 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>> Hello Ching,
>>>
>>>> 1. Add driver parameter cmd_timeout, default value is ARCMSR_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT.
>>>> 2. Add slave_configure callback function to set device command timeout value.
>>>> 3. Update driver version to v1.40.00.06-20180504.
>>>
>>> I am not so keen on arcmsr overriding the timeout set by the admin or
>>> application.
>>>
>>> Also, instead of introducing this module parameter, why not simply ask
>>> the user to change rq_timeout?
>>>
>> This timeout setting only after device has been inquiry successfully.
>> Of course, user can set timeout value to /sys/block/sdX/device/timeout.
>> But user does not like to set this value once command timeout occurred.
>> They rather like timeout never happen.
>>
> This timeout setting apply to all devices, its better than user has to
> set one bye one for each device.
Udev rules?
Something roughly like bottom of:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ST3FR7_8.1.2/com.ibm.storwize.v7000.812.doc/svc_linux_settings.html
or better doing the assignment with udev builtins (fix the syntax error
with model):
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ST3FR7_8.1.2/com.ibm.storwize.v7000.812.doc/svc_zs_statechange_3fgeri.html
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Steffen Maier
Linux on z Systems Development
IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-09 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-07 6:43 [PATCH 0/3] scsi: arcmsr: Add driver parameter cmd_timeout for scsi command timeout setting Ching Huang
2018-05-08 5:41 ` Martin K. Petersen
2018-05-08 6:32 ` Ching Huang
2018-05-08 6:43 ` Ching Huang
2018-05-09 9:05 ` Steffen Maier [this message]
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