On 12/18/13 16:28, Stewart, Sean wrote: > The most severe case is with > InfiniBand, where the LLD may place a device offline, then every single > reload that is trying to add a good path in will fail. I will qualify > this by saying that I realize it is a problem that the device gets > placed offline in the first place, but this patch would allow it a > chance to continue on. The user still has to take manual steps to fix > the problem in this case, but it seems less disruptive to applications. Are you perhaps referring to the SRP initiator ? The above is correct for old versions of the SRP initiator (< Linux kernel 3.12) but no longer for upstream kernel versions >= 3.12. An effort is ongoing to backport the latest SRP initiator changes into RHEL and SLES. Bart. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel