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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Chao Leng <lengchao@huawei.com>
Cc: axboe@fb.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, sagi@grimberg.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-core: introduce the preferential local retry mechanism
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 19:31:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200729023108.GB2729664@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdl.wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eed46cb8-1c6b-b83c-3ef4-bc06c922b214@huawei.com>

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 10:06:43AM +0800, Chao Leng wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2020/7/28 19:20, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > If the callers asks for failfast, the caller will get failfast,
> > period.
> > 
> If user issue cmd through ioctrl, nvme core will set cmd_flags:
> REQ_FAILFAST_DRIVER, and then in some scenarios which need retry io
> after a defined time, we will return io error, this is not what we
> expected. So we need introduce the preferential local retry mechanism.

Userspace owns error handling with ioctl passthrough commands. The
interface exists for unfiltered access to the device; the driver will
return status exactly as the device provided it. If userspace wants to
retry an error'ed passthrough, it is free to do so.

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      reply	other threads:[~2020-07-29  2:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-27  6:06 [PATCH] nvme-core: introduce the preferential local retry mechanism Chao Leng
2020-07-28 11:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29  1:58   ` Chao Leng
2020-07-29  2:06   ` Chao Leng
2020-07-29  2:31     ` Keith Busch [this message]

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