On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 07:38 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 03:57:05PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 08:21 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > Fixed that up, and applied these two patches as well. > > > > Hello Jens, > > > > Recently I noticed that a test system sporadically hangs during boot (Dell > > PowerEdge R720 that boots from a hard disk connected to a MegaRAID SAS > > adapter) > > and also that srp-tests systematically hangs. Reverting the two patches from > > this series fixes both issues. I'm not sure there is another solution than > > reverting the two patches from this series. > > Then we need to find the root cause, instead of using sort of workaround > as before. > > For SCSI, the restart is always run from scsi_end_request(), and this > kind of restart from all hctx isn't necessary at all.
Yes, we need to find the root cause, but after these two patches have either been reverted or have been removed from the for-4.15 queue. Otherwise if a bisect lands in the middle of these two patches and the fix for these patches that would be very frustrating for the person who is running the bisect. Bart.
