Mike Anderson wrote: > Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 30 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: >>> Jens Axboe wrote: >>>> That's actually a pretty dumb error, I'm surprised it hasn't reared its >>>> ugly face in more ways. Presumably because the timeout is usually so >>>> long, that we'll get to actually issuing and completing it within the >>>> normal timeout anyway. >>> Heh... it showed its ugly face in many different ways while I was >>> playing with PMP connected via a very long eSATA cable. >> Ah :-) >> >> If we had it wired up for eg the old IDE drivers, it would have shown up >> quite quickly as well I think. > > I am getting errors now and my system will not boot up. The system is > connected to storage with active / passive paths. If we are doing a > BLKPREP_KILL we will call elv_dequeue_request which will add the > timer for the request we are killing. > > The attached patch is a quick patch to work around my issue, but we > probably need something better. I would like to run some short timeout > testing on it for a while (though that previously did not catch Tejun's > issue). I will look at this more tomorrow unless someone beats me to it. Aieee... I'm now trying to clean up the command fetch/completion interface. Please give me a day or two. I'll clean it all up. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
