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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/9] dasd: implement block timeout
On Mon,  3 Jun 2013 17:03:13 +0200
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> This is a re-send of a patch series Hannes sent last january. Stefan
> looked at the patches and our tests went well, so I guess this is ready
> for upstream integration.
>
> The changes to block/blk-core.c and block/blk-timeout.c look good
> to me, but I would like to request an acked-by from Jens for the
> block layer parts in patch #6 and #7 of the series (pretty please :-)
>
> The original patch description from Hannes:
>
> This patch series implements a block timeout handler for
> DASDs. The main impetus was to allow for a fixed upper
> timeout value after which a request is aborted.
> This is required eg when implementing a host-based
> mirroring system where otherwise the entire mirror
> would stall under certain circumstances.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Fixed lock inversion in dasd_times_out()
> - Checked for 'device->block' when writing to 'timeout' attribute
> - Check against 'UINT_MAX' when verifying the 'timeout' value
>
> Once I got the required acked-by I can carry the patch set in the
> linux-s390 tree for the next merge window.
>
> Hannes Reinecke (9):
> dasd: Clarify comment
> dasd: make number of retries configurable
> dasd: process all requests in the device tasklet
> dasd: Implement block timeout handling
> dasd: Reduce amount of messages for specific errors
> block,dasd: detailed I/O errors
> block: check for timeout function in blk_rq_timed_out()
> dasd: Add 'timeout' attribute
> dasd: Fail all requests when DASD_FLAG_ABORTIO is set
>
> arch/s390/include/uapi/asm/dasd.h | 4 ++
> block/blk-core.c | 3 +
> block/blk-timeout.c | 5 +-
> drivers/s390/block/dasd.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/s390/block/dasd_diag.c | 8 ++-
> drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c | 15 +++--
> drivers/s390/block/dasd_erp.c | 8 +++
> drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c | 10 +++-
> drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h | 10 ++++
> drivers/s390/block/dasd_ioctl.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++
> 11 files changed, 313 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>

Ping. Jens could you please look at patch #6 and #7? I don't want
to do a please pull with block layer parts without your consent.

--
blue skies,
Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.



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