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Commit f2818663 authored by Hannes Reinecke's avatar Hannes Reinecke Committed by James Bottomley
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[SCSI] scsi_transport_fc: Remove capping from dev_loss_tmo



Currently dev_loss_tmo is capped by SCSI_DEVICE_BLOCK_MAX_TIMEOUT.
This causes problem with multipathing when the 'no_path_retry' setting
exceeds the dev_loss_tmo setting, as then the system might run into
a deadlock when all paths have been removed temporarily for longer
than dev_loss_tmo.
The principal reasons for the capping has been that we should
not allow a remote port to remain in status 'blocked' indefinitely,
so the capping is there to ensure that the port status is being reset
eventually.
However, the fast_io_fail_tmo will also move the remote port out of
the 'blocked' state, so for any HBA driver implementing both the
capping should really be on the fast_io_fail_tmo, and not on the
dev_loss_tmo.
This patch implements just that, ie the fast_io_fail_tmo is capped
to SCSI_DEVICE_BLOCK_TIMEOUT and the capping is removed from
dev_loss_tmo when fast_io_fail_tmo is set.
This allows us to synchronize the dev_loss_tmo setting to the
'no_path_retry' setting from multipathing thus avoiding the deadlock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJames Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
parent e47c11c7
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