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

James Bottomley jbottomley at parallels.com
Fri Jul 18 16:57:13 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 16:44 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> > -----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
> > (hch at infradead.org); linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org;
> > gregkh at linuxfoundation.org; jasowang at redhat.com; linux-
> > kernel at vger.kernel.org; ohering at suse.com; apw at canonical.com;
> > devel at linuxdriverproject.org
> > 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

Actually, no you didn't.  The difference is in the derivation of the
timeout.  Christoph's patch is absolute in terms of SD_TIMEOUT; yours is
relative to the queue timeout setting ... I thought there was a reason
for preferring the relative version.

James



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