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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Anner, Ran" <Ran.Anner@dell.com>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	"linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" <linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org>,
	"Engel, Amit" <Amit.Engel@dell.com>
Subject: Re: nvme reservation commands during controller reset
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:00:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200815070016.GA20460@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200814160220.GC3772144@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdl.wdc.com>

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 09:02:20AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> Couldn't you just clear the REQ_DRIVER_FAILFAST flag to get the existing
> retry mechanisms working in this path?

That would only retry locally and thus not really help.

> 
> And while it looks fine for fabrics, PCIe doesn't have the implied HOST
> ID connection that makes reservations do the right thing across
> different paths. Automatic path failover retries for PCIe may have the
> wrong result.

You need a host id for reservations to work properly, as without that
they won't actually be persistent.  Unfortunasly NVMe allows
reservations without a hostid with some rather broken semantics instead
of just failing them, so applications that do use reservations needs
to ensure a host id is set.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-15  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-05  7:14 nvme reservation commands during controller reset Engel, Amit
2020-08-09 16:10 ` Keith Busch
2020-08-10 12:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-10 15:13     ` Engel, Amit
2020-08-10 15:48       ` Keith Busch
2020-08-11 20:48         ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-08-12  7:00           ` Engel, Amit
2020-08-14  8:20           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-14 10:09             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-14 16:02               ` Keith Busch
2020-08-15  7:00                 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-08-14 18:29               ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-08-15  7:01                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-17  7:56                   ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-08-17  8:12                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-17 19:29                       ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-08-18  6:36                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-18 17:18                           ` Sagi Grimberg

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