On Thu, Aug 13 2020 at 2:43pm -0400, Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 01:47:04PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > This is just a tweak to improve the high-level fault tree of core NVMe > > error handling. No functional change, but for such basic errors, > > avoiding entering nvme_failover_req is meaningful on a code flow level. > > Makes code to handle errors that need local retry clearer by being more > > structured, less circuitous. > > > > Allows NVMe core's handling of such errors to be more explicit and live > > in core.c rather than multipath.c -- so things like ACRE handling can be > > made explicitly part of core and not nested under nvme_failover_req's > > relatively obscure failsafe that returns false for anything it doesn't > > care about. > > If we're going that way I'd rather do something like the (untested) > patch below that adds a dispostion function with a function that > decides it and then just switches on it: YES! That is such a huge improvement (certainly on a code clarity level). I haven't reviewed or tested the relative performance or function of before vs after (will do) but I really like this approach. Thanks, Mike -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
