On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 11:43:55PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 07:38 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 03:57:05PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 08:21 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > Fixed that up, and applied these two patches as well.
> > > 
> > > Hello Jens,
> > > 
> > > Recently I noticed that a test system sporadically hangs during boot (Dell
> > > PowerEdge R720 that boots from a hard disk connected to a MegaRAID SAS 
> > > adapter)
> > > and also that srp-tests systematically hangs. Reverting the two patches 
> > > from
> > > this series fixes both issues. I'm not sure there is another solution than
> > > reverting the two patches from this series.
> > 
> > Then we need to find the root cause, instead of using sort of workaround
> > as before.
> > 
> > For SCSI, the restart is always run from scsi_end_request(), and this
> > kind of restart from all hctx isn't necessary at all.
> 
> Yes, we need to find the root cause, but after these two patches have either
> been reverted or have been removed from the for-4.15 queue. Otherwise if a
> bisect lands in the middle of these two patches and the fix for these patches
> that would be very frustrating for the person who is running the bisect.

Could you please share your srp-tests script? I may find a IB/SRP system
to see if I can reproduce this issue and figure out one solution.

-- 
Ming

Reply via email to