linux-kernel - RE: Drivers: scsi

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:34:38 +0000
From:	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
CC:	"gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"ohering@...e.com" <ohering@...e.com>,
	"hch@...radead.org" <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Drivers: scsi



> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bottomley [mailto:James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:25 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> devel@...uxdriverproject.org; ohering@...e.com; hch@...radead.org; linux-
> scsi@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Drivers: scsi
> 
> On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 09:25 -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > When the low level driver returns SCSI_MLQUEUE_DEVICE_BUSY,
> > how is the command retried; I suspect the retry is done after some delay.
> 
> Delay depends mainly on I/O pressure and the unplug timer in the block
> layer.
> 
> > Is this delay programmable? If the device state changes,
> > can the low level driver notify upper layers that it can now handle
> > the command that it had failed earlier with SCSI_MLQUEUE_DEVICE_BUSY.
> 
> In theory, you can call blk_run_queue() from the event handler that sees
> the device become ready.  I don't think any driver actually does this,
> but I can't see it would cause any problem.

I will try this. Thanks for your prompt response.

Regards,

K. Y