On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de> wrote:
> When a command runs into a timeout we need to send an 'ABORT TASK'
> TMF. This is typically done by the 'eh_abort_handler' LLDD callback.
>
> Conceptually, however, this function is a normal SCSI command, so
> there is no need to enter the error handler.
>
> This patch implements a new scsi_abort_command() function which
> invokes an asynchronous function scsi_eh_abort_handler() to
> abort the commands via 'eh_abort_handler'.
>
> If the 'eh_abort_handler' returns SUCCESS or FAST_IO_FAIL the
> command will be retried if possible. If no retries are allowed
> the command will be returned immediately, as we have to assume
> the TMF succeeded and the command is completed with the LLDD.
> For any other return code from 'eh_abort_handler' the command
> will be pushed onto the existing SCSI EH handler, or aborted
> with DID_TIME_OUT if that fails.
>

Why would you do a retry at this low level? We already have a bad path,
the IO may already be rerouted through another path and continuing with this
IO here may interfere with the multipath handling.


Baruch
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