James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:59 -0500, Michael Reed wrote: >> mpt_config() can return EAGAIN. When this happens, fibre channel target >> discovery can prematurely terminate with fewer than the total number of >> targets discovered. This patch detects EAGAIN and reschedules the scan >> work. >> >> Generally, this situation only occurs when the lsiutil program is being >> used to reset the board. > > mpt_config() only returns EAGAIN when it's out of message frames. That > should be a very transient condition, so if this rarely occurs anyway, > why not just put an msleep(10) on the condition and then retry? It > would save all the requeue logic. It's not so transient during reset processing. I've measured 10 to 15 seconds of elapsed time. But, it always eventually succeeds. Mike > > James > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
