[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath: Evaluate request result and sense code

Mike Christie michaelc at cs.wisc.edu
Thu Nov 19 19:58:36 UTC 2009


Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> As we now see the result for every command we
> can use it to make some more elaborate choices
> if we should retry the request on another path.
> 
> This solves a potential data corruption when
> a request is being terminated with RESERVATION
> CONFLICT and queue_if_no_path is active; the
> request will be queued until the reservation
> status changes and then transmitted.


I had the same bz. To handle it I just converted the error to some other 
-EXYZ value. But like I said in my patch that I sent to the list I did 
not like it much.

I thought of going the route you did in this patch, but thought it was 
too scsi specific. Does dasd want advanced error handling? If not, then 
I am fine since for hw handlers we assume they are always scsi_dh modules.




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