> On 10/17/2017 09:11 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> EMC Symmetrix is returning 'internal target error' for a variety
>> of conditions, most of which will be transient.
>> So we should always retry it, even with failfast set.
>> Otherwise we'd get spurious path flaps with multipath.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de>
>> ---
>> drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
>> index 5086489..5722c2e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
>> @@ -497,6 +497,16 @@ int scsi_check_sense(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd)
>> if (sshdr.asc == 0x10) /* DIF */
>> return SUCCESS;
>>
>> + if (!strncmp(scmd->device->vendor, "EMC", 3) &&
>> + !strncmp(scmd->device->model, "SYMMETRIX", 9) &&
>> + (sshdr.asc == 0x44) && (sshdr.ascq == 0x0)) {
>> + /*
>> + * EMC Symmetrix returns 'Internal target failure'
>> + * for a variety of internal issues, all of which
>> + * can be recovered by retry.
>> + */
>> + return ADD_TO_MLQUEUE;
>> + }
>> return NEEDS_RETRY;
>> case NOT_READY:
>> case UNIT_ATTENTION:
>> @@ -1846,6 +1856,9 @@ int scsi_decide_disposition(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd)
>> rtn = scsi_check_sense(scmd);
>> if (rtn == NEEDS_RETRY)
>> goto maybe_retry;
>> + else if (rtn == ADD_TO_MLQUEUE)
>> + /* Always enforce a retry for ADD_TO_MLQUEUE */
>> + rtn = NEEDS_RETRY;
>> /* if rtn == FAILED, we have no sense information;
>> * returning FAILED will wake the error handler thread
>> * to collect the sense and redo the decide
>>
On 10/18/2017 07:27 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Yeah, you are right.
>> Will be adding a blacklist entry for this.
Is there a new patch ongoing?
