On 2014/2/7 13:46, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 09:22 +0900, Eiichi Tsukata wrote:
>> Currently, scsi error handling in scsi_io_completion() tries to
>> unconditionally requeue scsi command when device keeps some error state.
>> For example, UNIT_ATTENTION causes infinite retry with
>> action == ACTION_RETRY.
>> This is because retryable errors are thought to be temporary and the scsi
>> device will soon recover from those errors. Normally, such retry policy is
>> appropriate because the device will soon recover from temporary error state.
>
>
>
>> But there is no guarantee that device is able to recover from error state
>> immediately. Actually, we've experienced an infinite retry on some hardware.
>> Therefore hardware error can results in infinite command retry loop.
>
> Could you please add an analysis of the actual failure; which devices
> and what conditions.
>
same question, can you explain?
>> This patch adds 'retry_timeout' sysfs attribute which limits the retry time
>> of each scsi command. This attribute is located in scsi sysfs directory
>> for example "/sys/bus/scsi/devices/X:X:X:X/" and value is in seconds.
>> Once scsi command retry time is longer than this timeout,
>> the command is treated as failure. 'retry_timeout' is set to '0' by default
>> which means no timeout set.
>
> Don't do this ... you're mixing a feature (which you'd need to justify)
> with an apparent bug fix.
>
> Once you dump all the complexity, I think the patch boils down to a
> simple check before the action switch in scsi_io_completion():
>
> if (action != ACTION_FAIL &&
> time_before(cmd->jiffies_at_alloc + wait_for, jiffies)) {
> action = ACTION_FAIL;
> description = "command timed out";
> }
>
>
> James
>
>
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