On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 16:44 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Christoph Hellwig (h...@infradead.org) [mailto:h...@infradead.org] > > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 8:11 AM > > To: KY Srinivasan > > Cc: Jens Axboe; James Bottomley; micha...@cs.wisc.edu; Christoph Hellwig > > (h...@infradead.org); linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; > > gre...@linuxfoundation.org; jasow...@redhat.com; linux- > > ker...@vger.kernel.org; oher...@suse.com; a...@canonical.com; > > de...@linuxdriverproject.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [SCSI] Fix a bug in deriving the FLUSH_TIMEOUT > > from the basic I/O timeout > > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:53:33PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > I still see this problem. There was talk of fixing it elsewhere. > > > > Well, what we have right not is entirely broken, given that the block layer > > doesn't initialize ->timeout on TYPE_FS requeuests. > > > > We either need to revert that initial commit or apply something like the > > attached patch as a quick fix. > I had sent this exact patch sometime back: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg75385.html
Actually, no you didn't. The difference is in the derivation of the timeout. Christoph's patch is absolute in terms of SD_TIMEOUT; yours is relative to the queue timeout setting ... I thought there was a reason for preferring the relative version. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
