>>>>> "Baruch" == Baruch Even <baruch@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Baruch> Actually reducing the timeouts is probably not a good approach Baruch> since it will cause the host to take a more radical approach Baruch> without waiting sufficiently for a potential recovery. Reducing the eh timeout is a requirement in many clustered setups. We've been shipping a predecessor to this patch in our kernels for a long time. Baruch> In addition the more radical error handlings such as host reset Baruch> will destroy other paths for completely unrelated devices/links, Baruch> from my experience a host reset is usually not required and the Baruch> Linux kernel currently reaches to this big hammer too fast. I'm also working on a patch to add some heuristics to avoid the HBA and bus resets if I/O is completing successfully on other attached targets. But that's an orthogonal issue. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
