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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
To: "hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "ddiss@suse.de" <ddiss@suse.de>, "hare@suse.com" <hare@suse.com>,
	"target-devel@vger.kernel.org" <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"agrover@redhat.com" <agrover@redhat.com>,
	"nab@linux-iscsi.org" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/19] target: Avoid that aborting a command sporadically hangs
Date: Fri, 5 May 2017 15:00:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493996435.2744.1.camel@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170505085355.GC4858@lst.de>

On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 10:53 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> But as a further step can we try to move the waiting behavior entirely
> into the caller that actually cares,
> 
> e.g. move the conditional target_wait_free_cmd before the call
> to transport_generic_free_cmd in transport_generic_free_cmd,
> and move this second wait_for_completion after the
> transport_generic_free_cmd call based on an indicator (return value
> or se_cmd flag)?

Hello Christoph,

That sounds like a good idea to me, especially since there are only three
target drivers that set the "wait_for_tasks" argument to true, namely
tcm_loop, the iSCSI target driver and the xen-scsiback driver.

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-05 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20170504225102.8931-1-bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
2017-05-04 22:50 ` [PATCH 03/19] target: Avoid that aborting a command sporadically hangs Bart Van Assche
2017-05-05  6:12   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-05-05  8:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 15:00     ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2017-05-11  0:23     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-07 22:20   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-08 21:25     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-10  4:48       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-04 22:50 ` [PATCH 04/19] target/fileio: Avoid that zero-length READ and WRITE commands hang Bart Van Assche
2017-05-05  6:14   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-05-05  8:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-07 22:28   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-04 22:50 ` [PATCH 05/19] target: Allocate sg-list correctly Bart Van Assche
2017-05-05  6:15   ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-05-05  9:06   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 15:49     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-07 22:45   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-08 17:46     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-10  4:03       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-10  6:12         ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-10 20:31         ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-11  5:28           ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-04 22:50 ` [PATCH 06/19] target: Fix data buffer size for VERIFY and WRITE AND VERIFY commands Bart Van Assche
2017-05-05  9:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-05-05 15:51     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-07 22:49   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-08 18:07     ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-10  4:28       ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-10 15:16         ` Bart Van Assche
2017-05-11  5:09           ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2017-05-04 22:51 ` [PATCH 17/19] target/iscsi: Simplify timer manipulation code Bart Van Assche
2017-05-05 11:24   ` Hannes Reinecke

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