On 2016/2/5 11:13, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Yiwen" == jiangyiwen <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Yiwen,
>
> Yiwen> First, I don't understand why blk_peek_request() return
> Yiwen> EREMOTEIO, as I know, in this situation we only prepare scsi
> Yiwen> command without sending to device, and I think EREMOTEIO should
> Yiwen> be returned only when IO has already sent to device, maybe I
> Yiwen> don't understand definition of EREMOTEIO. So, Why don't return
> Yiwen> the errno with EOPNOTSUPP?
>
> DM currently has special handling for EREMOTEIO failures (because that's
> what we'd return when a device responds with ILLEGAL REQUEST).
>
> I am not opposed to returning EOPNOTSUPP but it would require more
> changes and since this is a bugfix for stable I want to keep it as small
> as possible.
>
> Yiwen> In addition, I still worried with whether there has other
> Yiwen> situations which will return EIO or other error. In this way,
> Yiwen> MD/DM still can happen this type of problem, so I think may be in
> Yiwen> multipath we still needs a protection to avoid it.
>
> There are various error scenarios where we can end up bailing with a
> BLKPREP_KILL. But the general rule of thumb is that these conditions all
> demand a retry. The optional commands like WRITE SAME and UNMAP are
> special in that they are irrecoverable.
>
> Yiwen> At last, I have a additional problem, I remember that you
> Yiwen> previously send a series of patches about XCOPY, why don't have
> Yiwen> any news latter later? I very much expect that I can see these
> Yiwen> patches which are merged into kernel.
>
> I am working on a refresh of the series that includes token-based copy
> offload support in addition to EXTENDED COPY. The patches depend on Mike
> Christie's request flag patch series which has yet to be merged.
>
Hi Martin,
I tested this code, but found a problem.
When called scsi_prep_fn return BLKPREP_INVALID, we should
use the same code with BLKPREP_KILL in scsi_prep_return. This
patch should add a line of code as follows:
---
drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index dd8ad2a..d8d2198 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
@@ -1343,6 +1343,7 @@ scsi_prep_return(struct request_queue *q, struct request
*req, int ret)
switch (ret) {
case BLKPREP_KILL:
+ case BLKPREP_INVALID:
req->errors = DID_NO_CONNECT << 16;
/* release the command and kill it */
if (req->special) {
--
1.8.4.3
Thanks,
Yiwen Jiang.
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