[PATCH 1/1] [SCSI] Fix a bug in deriving the FLUSH_TIMEOUT from the basic I/O timeout

KY Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Fri Jul 18 16:44:14 UTC 2014



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig (hch at infradead.org) [mailto:hch at infradead.org]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 8:11 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: Jens Axboe; James Bottomley; michaelc at cs.wisc.edu; Christoph Hellwig
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [SCSI] Fix a bug in deriving the FLUSH_TIMEOUT
> from the basic I/O timeout
> 
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:53:33PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > I still see this problem. There was talk of fixing it elsewhere.
> 
> Well, what we have right not is entirely broken, given that the block layer
> doesn't initialize ->timeout on TYPE_FS requeuests.
> 
> We either need to revert that initial commit or apply something like the
> attached patch as a quick fix.
I had sent this exact patch sometime back:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg75385.html

K. Y




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