On 2004-02-20T17:40:42,
Heinz Mauelshagen <Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > > in a fabric, which come back online shortly later when all paths have been
> > > failed by the multipath target.
> > You think EIO is the wrong response to this ?
> In case all paths come back after a reasonably short time it is.
Can you define 'reasonably short time'?
If they come back faster than a single SCSI timeout: we are covered.
Otherwise, I'd say we should place the limit at 'We can only queue so
much until we run out of memory'; alas, the failure case which you bring
up is swapping to a fully disconnected m-p device under OOM, and that's
pathological.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>
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