On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 04:37:00PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 05:30:51PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 01:49:23PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote: > > > If path is not available, retry is not done immediately rather we wait for > > > path to be available (as underlying controller may still be > > > resetting/connecting). List helped as command gets added into > > > it (and submitter/io_uring gets the control back), and retry is done > > > exact point in time. > > > But yes, it won't harm if we do couple of retries even if path is known > > > not to be available (somewhat like iopoll). As this situation is > > > not common. And with that scheme, we don't have to link io_uring_cmd. > > > > Stupid question does it only fail over immediately when the path is not > > available or any failure? If it fails over for everything it's possible > > the target gets the same request twice. FWIW, we are just debugging this > > scenario right now. > > failover is only for path-related failure, and not otherwise. > you might want to take a look at nvme_decide_disposition routine where > it makes that decision. Ah okay, never mind. I somewhat got the impression there is special handling code added for this case. Sorry for the noise.