On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 22:40 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 15:31 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 22:21 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 15:00 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 10:40 -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > @@ -1050,7 +1050,22 @@ static int scsi_send_eh_cmnd(struct > > > > > scsi_cmnd > > > > > *scmd, unsigned char *cmnd, > > > > > > > > > > scsi_log_send(scmd); > > > > > scmd->scsi_done = scsi_eh_done; > > > > > - rtn = shost->hostt->queuecommand(shost, scmd); > > > > > + mutex_lock(&sdev->state_mutex); > > > > > + while (sdev->sdev_state == SDEV_QUIESCE && timeleft > > > > > > 0) > > > > > { > > > > > + mutex_unlock(&sdev->state_mutex); > > > > > + SCSI_LOG_ERROR_RECOVERY(5, > > > > > sdev_printk(KERN_DEBUG, > > > > > sdev, > > > > > + "%s: state %d <> %d\n", __func__, > > > > > sdev- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > sdev_state, > > > > > > > > > > + SDEV_QUIESCE)); > > > > > + delay = min(timeleft, stall_for); > > > > > + timeleft -= delay; > > > > > + msleep(jiffies_to_msecs(delay)); > > > > > + mutex_lock(&sdev->state_mutex); > > > > > + } > > > > > > > > What's the point of this loop? if you eliminate it, you still > > > > get > > > > exactly the same msleep from the stall_for retry processing. > > > > > > Hello James, > > > > > > The purpose of that loop is to check the SCSI device state every > > > "stall_for" jiffies and to avoid that more than "timeleft" > > > jiffies is > > > spent on waiting. > > > > I know what the loop does; the the question I was asking is doesn't > > setting rtn instead of calling ->queuecommand() achieve the same > > thing? > > Sorry but I don't understand that last question. How could setting > rtn be an alternative for calling ->queuecommand() since we really > want to call ->queuecommand if the SCSI device leaves the quiesced > state before the timeout has expired? Can you rephrase that last > question? In your new code you have + if (sdev->sdev_state != SDEV_QUIESCE) + rtn = shost->hostt->queuecommand(shost, scmd); + else + rtn = SCSI_MLQUEUE_DEVICE_BUSY; That sets rtn instead of calling queuecommand Then you drop through to this code below: if (rtn) { if (timeleft > stall_for) { scsi_eh_restore_cmnd(scmd, &ses); timeleft -= stall_for; msleep(jiffies_to_msecs(stall_for)); goto retry; } Which causes a msleep which is equivalent to the while loop. James