On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:18 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > So use a req->retries instead of the fail fast flag? > > Would be fine. Some drivers are messing with ->errors for that anyways, > so would be nice to clean that up. > > It would need to be done _very_ carefully though! Actually, I think there's still a need for both. Fail fast implies more than simply no retry. In the SCSI case it should eventually mean fail the command before we begin transport recovery (at the moment, we simply use the command in transport recovery, however long it takes, and then return the failure). James
