linux-kernel - Re: [SCSI PATCH] sd: max-retries becomes configurable

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:04:26 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [SCSI PATCH] sd: max-retries becomes configurable

On 09/25/2012 06:38 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 01:21 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Can you be more specific about sysfs location?  A runtime-writable (via
>> sysfs!) module parameter for a module-wide default seemed appropriate.
>
> Well, if it's really important, the same thing should happen with
> retries as happened with timeout (it became a request_queue property),
> but it could be hacked as a struct scsi_disk one with a corresponding
> entry in sd_dis_attrs.

Well, it is already a request property...  but assigned at 
initialization from sd-specific code.  sd also passes this through 
scmd->allowed to rq->retries.

It could become a request_queue property, but that seems like a hack as 
it is simply passed right back into SCSI EH, for SCSI-specific disposition.

	Jeff



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