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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Ewan Milne <emilne@redhat.com>,
	Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>,
	Linux NVMe Mailinglist <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Rework NVMe abort handling
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:50:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180719145005.GA21000@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180719143534.i36vo45lhz24xbrg@linux-x5ow.site>

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 04:35:34PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > No with the the code following what we have in PCIe that just means
> > we'll eventually controller reset after the I/O command times out
> > the second time as we still won't have seen a completion for it.
> 
> Exactly that was my intention.

Which means the only thing you do for your use case is to delay
recovery even further.

> OK, let me see where I'm stuck here. We're issuing a command, it gets
> lost due to $REASON and I'm aborting it. The upper layers then
> eventually retry the command and it arrives at the target side. But so
> does the old command as well and we have a duplicate. Correct?

The upper layer is only going to retry after tearing down the transport
connection.  And a tear down of the connection MUST clear all pending
commands on the way.  If it doesn't we are in deep, deep trouble.

A NVMe abort has no chance of clearing things at the transport layer.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-19 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-19 13:28 [PATCH 0/4] Rework NVMe abort handling Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 13:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] nvme: factor out pci abort handling into core Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 16:29   ` kbuild test robot
2018-07-19 13:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] nvme: rdma: abort commands before resetting controller Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 13:28 ` [PATCH 3/4] nvmet: loop: " Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 13:28 ` [PATCH 4/4] nvme: fc: " Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 13:42 ` [PATCH 0/4] Rework NVMe abort handling Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-19 14:10   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 14:23     ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-19 14:35       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 14:50         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-07-19 14:54           ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 15:04             ` James Smart
2018-07-20  6:36               ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-07-19 15:00     ` James Smart

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