Hello, On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 09:20:25PM +0800, chenxiang wrote: > In ata_eh_reset, it will reset three times at most for sata disk. For > some drivers through libsas, it calls sas_ata_hard_reset at last. When > device is gone, function sas_ata_hard_reset will return -ENODEV. But > it will still try to reset three times for offline device. This process > lasts a long time: > > [11248.344323] ata13.00: status: { ERR } > [11248.344324] ata13.00: error: { ABRT } > [11248.344327] ata13: hard resetting link > [11248.503557] sas: ata: ex 500e004aaaaaaa1f phy02:U:A attached:0000000000000000 (no device) > [11249.359524] sas: ata13: end_device-1:0:2: reset failed (errno=-19)[eta03d:19h:35m:17s] > [11249.365692] ata13: reset failed (errno=-19), retrying in 9 secs > [11258.451402] ata13: hard resetting linkKB/0KB/0KB /s] [0/0/0 iops][eta 03d:22h:10m:48s] > [11259.411508] sas: ata13: end_device-1:0:2: reset failed (errno=-19)[eta 03d:22h:28m:05s] > [11259.417683] ata13: reset failed (errno=-19), retrying in 10 secs > [11268.695401] ata13: hard resetting linkKB/0KB/0KB /s] [0/0/0 iops] [eta 04d:01h:03m:37s] > [11269.699513] sas: ata13: end_device-1:0:2: reset failed (errno=-19)[eta 04d:01h:20m:54s] > [11269.705689] ata13: reset failed (errno=-19), retrying in 34 secs > [11304.275393] ata13: hard resetting linkKB/0KB/0KB /s] [0/0/0 iops] [eta 04d:11h:25m:43s] > [11305.283516] sas: ata13: end_device-1:0:2: reset failed (errno=-19)[eta 04d:11h:43m:00s] > [11305.289692] ata13: reset failed, giving up > [11305.293785] ata13.00: disabled > > Actually it is no need to reset three times for this scenario. So add > a check to avoid it. I'm a bit reluctant in changing this per-driver. Does this actually hurt something? 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