Re: [PATCH 17/18] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed issue of task management commands having a fixed timeout

2013-09-09 Thread Jeremy Linton
On 9/8/2013 8:59 AM, James Smart wrote: The other issue - we seem to have missed your prior post. I'll look into it shortly. Thanks, Those patches were the result of various error injection test cases we were performing. The ones that come to mind were, hung sequences, TM rejects,

Re: [PATCH 17/18] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed issue of task management commands having a fixed timeout

2013-09-08 Thread James Smart
Jeremy, Different issues The patch addresses only 1 topic - making an attribute to change the timeout for the TMF. This was a request by the distros to post a hack that was used on older releases to work around all the serialization and delay problems in the midlayer error recovery path

[PATCH 17/18] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed issue of task management commands having a fixed timeout

2013-09-06 Thread James Smart
Fixed issue of task management commands having a fixed timeout Signed-off-by: James Smart james.sm...@emulex.com --- lpfc.h |1 + lpfc_attr.c |8 lpfc_scsi.c |2 +- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -upNr a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c

Re: [PATCH 17/18] lpfc 8.3.42: Fixed issue of task management commands having a fixed timeout

2013-09-06 Thread Jeremy Linton
On 9/6/2013 11:22 AM, James Smart wrote: Fixed issue of task management commands having a fixed timeout I'm surprised about this change, since it appears a number of issues in the send_taskmgmt() still exist that keep it from handling task management failures correctly. It also