linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] virtio-scsi: fix various bad behavior on aborted requests

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:05:15 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Venkatesh Srinivas <venkateshs@...gle.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	hch@....de, JBottomley@...allels.com, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Venkatesh Srinivas <vsrinivas@...101.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] virtio-scsi: fix various bad behavior on aborted
 requests

Il 04/06/2014 19:29, Venkatesh Srinivas ha scritto:
> Do you really want to poll the request VQs for completions if the TMF
> was rejected?

I wasn't sure, but bugs in this path are hard enough that I preferred 
the safer patch.

> TMF ABORT may return FUNCTION REJECTED if the command to abort
> completed before the device saw the TMF ABORT message, for example. In
> such cases, this would
> unnecessarily lengthen the EH path.

The cost of virtscsi_poll_requests should be nothing compared to the 
delay between the timeout and the invocation of the delayed_work, no?

Paolo
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