Re: [PATCH 17/19] lpfc: Fix nonrecovery of NVME controller after cable swap.

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On 01/24/2018 11:45 PM, James Smart wrote:
> In a test that is doing large numbers of cable swaps on the target,
> the nvme controllers wouldn't reconnect.
> 
> During the cable swaps, the targets n_port_id would change. This
> information was passed to the nvme-fc transport, in the new remoteport
> registration. However, the nvme-fc transport didn't update the n_port_id
> value in the remoteport struct when it reused an existing structure.
> Later, when a new association was attempted on the remoteport, the
> driver's NVME LS routine would use the stale n_port_id from the remoteport
> struct to address the LS. As the device is no longer at that address,
> the LS would go into never never land.
> 
> Separately, the nvme-fc transport will be corrected to update the
> n_port_id value on a re-registration.
> 
> However, for now, there's no reason to use the transports values.
> The private pointer points to the drivers node structure and the
> node structure is up to date. Therefore, revise the LS routine to
> use the drivers data structures for the LS. Augmented the debug
> message for better debugging in the future.
> 
> Also removed a duplicate if check that seems to have slipped in.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_nvme.c | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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