On Tue 24-11-09 15:13:01, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Jan Kara wrote: > > > After digging in block layer code, it's as we suspected: > > In case of host error DID_ERROR (which is our case), scsi request is > > retried iff it is not a FAILFAST request which is set if bio is doing > > readahead... So this is explained and everything behaves as it should. > > Thanks everybody involved :). > > Okay, very good. There remains the question of the disturbing error > messages in the system log. Should they be supressed for FAILFAST > requests? I think it's useful they are there because ultimately, something really went wrong and you should better investigate. BTW, "end_request: I/O error" messages are in the log even for requests where we retried and succeeded... Honza -- 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