Re: [PATCH 04/12] lpfc: Reset link or adapter instead of doing infinite nameserver PLOGI retry

2018-10-29 Thread Hannes Reinecke
On 10/23/18 10:41 PM, James Smart wrote: Currently, PLOGI failures are infinitely delayed/retried. There have been some fabric situations where the PLOGI's were to the nameserver and it stopped responding. The retries would never clear up. A better resolution in this situation is to retry a coup

[PATCH 04/12] lpfc: Reset link or adapter instead of doing infinite nameserver PLOGI retry

2018-10-23 Thread James Smart
Currently, PLOGI failures are infinitely delayed/retried. There have been some fabric situations where the PLOGI's were to the nameserver and it stopped responding. The retries would never clear up. A better resolution in this situation is to retry a couple of times, then drop the link and reinit.