Re: [PATCH] scsi_lib.c: continue after MEDIUM_ERROR

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Mark Lord wrote:
Eric D. Mudama wrote:

Actually, it's possibly worse, since each failure in libata will generate 3-4 retries. With existing ATA error recovery in the drives, that's about 3 seconds per retry on average, or 12 seconds per failure. Multiply that by the number of blocks past the error to complete the request..

It really beats the alternative of a forced reboot
due to, say, superblock I/O failing because it happened
to get merged with an unrelated I/O which then failed..
Etc..


FWIW -- speaking generally -- I think there are inevitable areas where libata error handling combined with SCSI error handling results in suboptimal error handling.

Just creating a list of "<this behavior> should be handled <this way>, but in reality is handled in <this silly way>" would be very helpful.

Error handling is tough to get right, because the code is exercised so infrequently. Tejun has actually done an above-average job here, by making device probe, hotplug and other "exceptions" go through the libata EH code, thereby exercising the EH code more than one might normally assume.

Some errors in libata probably should not be retried more than once, when we have a definitive diagnosis. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.

	Jeff


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