Re: "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how to prevent?

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On 2010-09-24 05:51, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 10-09-23 10:53 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
>> On 10-09-23 08:05 PM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>>> Mark,
>>> If you issued the SG_IO ioctl with a timeout of at
>>> least 66 minutes (expressed in milliseconds) then
>>> it looks like ata_scsi_queuecmd() has a problem.
>> ..
>>
>> Mmm.. more like blk_execute_rq() perhaps.
>> That's where the wait_for_completion(&wait) call is at.
>>
>> Perhaps I should change it to wait in smaller increments,
>> so that the lockup detection doesn't trigger on it..
> ..
> 
> This patch (below) seems to work.
> 
> Does this look kosher enough for me to roll it up
> as a proper patch submission?   Jens?  Joel?

Ideally it would be nice to just pass the info down that it should not
complain, since waiting > 120 seconds (or whatever the timeout is set
to) is expected by the caller in some cases.

But your patch is simple enough and it gets the job done. I will queue
it up for .37 if you send a properly formatted and signed-off-by
version.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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