Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Brian King wrote: >> Currently, the scsi error handler will issue a START_UNIT >> command if the drive indicates it needs its motor started >> and the allow_restart flag is set in the scsi_device. If, >> after the scsi error handler invokes a host adapter reset >> due to error recovery, a device is in a unit attention >> state AND also needs a START_UNIT, that device will be placed >> offline. The disk array devices on an ipr RAID adapter >> will do exactly this when in a dual initiator configuration. >> This patch adds a single retry to the EH initiated >> START_UNIT. > > I have no objection to this patch. Just seems a pity > that SCSI devices go to the trouble of sending unit > attentions while OSes just throw them away.
I agree. The reason the ipr adapter firmware added this UA in this configuration was to support SCSI 1 reservations and communicate to the host that any reservation previously held to the disk array is now lost since the adapter was reset. > Perhaps the scsi_device sysfs directory could have entries > like: > last_ua_asc > last_ua_ascq > last_ua_timestamp > where code could place the asc/ascq codes and a timestamp > then continue doing a retry. > Could we get a log entry, hotplug event? If we did have a way to communicate UA's to userspace like this it seems like it would allow usage of SCSI 1 reservations in this config and make it easier for an out of band tool to manage these reservations. I wonder if it would be cleaner if UAs could simply be sent up as netlink events / uevents, so they could contain all the information needed in one packet, rather than having to read sysfs attributes to figure out what happened. > Logical units may queue unit attentions (sam4r10.pdf > section 5.8.7) so it is possible that one retry may > not be enough. With my suggestion above, only the last > one would persist for a reasonable time. Yep. I've already ran into that with dual ported SAS devices. While one retry is sufficient for the ipr disk array devices I am trying to fix this for, I have no objection to increasing it. Maybe its just a case of increasing it later if it ends up being an issue. Brian -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
