On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:03 -0700, Moore, Eric wrote: > In the 03.02.19, we add added the current logic for the following > reason: > > "When a target device responds with BUSY status, the MPT driver was > sending DID_OK to the > SCSI mid layer, which caused the IO to be retried indefinitely between > the mid layer and the > driver. By changing the driver return status to DID_BUS_BUSY, the > target BUSY status can > now flow through the mid layer to an upper layer Failover driver, which > will manage the I/O timeout." Right, I sort of suspected something like this. BUSY/QUEUE_FULL handling was a bit iffy in 2.4; but it was sorted out in the 2003/4 timeframe. Nowadays, I think you want to translate the MPI_SCSI_STATUS_BUSY directly to SAM_STAT_BUSY (i.e. just remove the special casing if). James - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
