Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754123Ab0LGXRe (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:17:34 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22794 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752964Ab0LGXRc (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:17:32 -0500 From: Mike Snitzer To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, tytso@mit.edu, sshtylyov@mvista.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jaxboe@fusionio.com, jack@suse.cz, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, swhiteho@redhat.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, James.Bottomley@suse.de, konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp, j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com, vst@vlnb.net, rwheeler@redhat.com, hch@lst.de, chris.mason@oracle.com, tj@kernel.org Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] dm mpath: propagate target errors immediately Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 18:16:41 -0500 Message-Id: <1291763802-8251-3-git-send-email-snitzer@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1291763802-8251-1-git-send-email-snitzer@redhat.com> References: <1291763802-8251-1-git-send-email-snitzer@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1396 Lines: 41 DM now has more information about the nature of the underlying storage failure. Path failure is avoided if a request failed due to a target error. Instead the target error is immediately passed up the stack. Discard requests that fail due to non-target errors may now be retried. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer --- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 11 +---------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c index 487ecda..071529a 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c @@ -1270,16 +1270,7 @@ static int do_end_io(struct multipath *m, struct request *clone, if (!error && !clone->errors) return 0; /* I/O complete */ - if (error == -EOPNOTSUPP) - return error; - - if (clone->cmd_flags & REQ_DISCARD) - /* - * Pass all discard request failures up. - * FIXME: only fail_path if the discard failed due to a - * transport problem. This requires precise understanding - * of the underlying failure (e.g. the SCSI sense). - */ + if (error == -EOPNOTSUPP || error == -EREMOTEIO) return error; if (mpio->pgpath) -- 1.7.2.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/