From: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
To: Arun Easi <aeasi@marvell.com>, Daniel Wagner <dwagner@suse.de>
Cc: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
GR-QLogic-Storage-Upstream@marvell.com,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Nilesh Javali <njavali@marvell.com>,
James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [RFC] qla2xxx: Add dev_loss_tmo kernel module options
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 07:51:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6800e85-a8c0-efda-6be9-558dc2a5b898@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.21.9999.2104201642290.24132@irv1user01.caveonetworks.com>
On 4/20/2021 5:25 PM, Arun Easi wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, 11:28am, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Hi Roman,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 08:35:10PM +0300, Roman Bolshakov wrote:
>>> + James S.
>>>
>>> Daniel, WRT to your patch I don't think we should add one more approach
>>> to set dev_loss_tmo via kernel module parameter as NVMe adopters are
>>> going to be even more confused about the parameter. Just imagine
>>> knowledge bases populated with all sorts of the workarounds, that apply
>>> to kernel version x, y, z, etc :)
>>
>> Totally agree. I consider this patch just a hack and way to get the
>> discussion going, hence the RFC :) Well, maybe we are going to add it
>> downstream in our kernels until we have a better way for setting the
>> dev_loss_tmo.
>>
>> As explained the debugfs interface is not working (okay, that's
>> something which could be fixed) and it has the big problem that it is
>> not under control by udevd. Not sure if we with some new udev rules the
>> debugfs could automatically discovered or not.
>
> Curious, which udev script does this today for FC SCSI?
>
> In theory, the exsting fc nvmediscovery udev event has enough information
> to find out the right qla2xxx debugfs node and set dev_loss_tmo.
>
>>
>>> What exists for FCP/SCSI is quite clear and reasonable. I don't know why
>>> FC-NVMe rports should be way too different.
>>
>> The lpfc driver does expose the FCP/SCSI and the FC-NVMe rports nicely
>> via the fc_remote_ports and this is what I would like to have from the
>> qla2xxx driver as well. qla2xxx exposes the FCP/SCSI rports but not the
>> FC-NVMe rports.
>>
>
> Given that FC NVME does not have sysfs hierarchy like FC SCSI, I see
> utility in making FC-NVME ports available via fc_remote_ports. If, though,
> a FC target port is dual protocol aware this would leave with only one
> knob to control both.
>
> I think, going with fc_remote_ports is better than introducing one more
> way (like this patch) to set this.
>
> Regards,
> -Arun
Thanks Arun,
I think we're all better off if the qla exports the nvme nodes via the
scsi-side fc_remote_ports. In the end - we will commonize a fc
transport that then sits above scsi and nvme and will definitely be
compatible with what's there. The registration with scsi was rather
straight-forward for lpfc, so I assume it will be for qla as well and
the devloss interface, although kludegy to have the driver propagate the
scsi callback to nvme, also isn't much.
I also don't think we want to keep creating new mgmt points. it's
already ugly enough.
-- james
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-19 10:00 [RFC] qla2xxx: Add dev_loss_tmo kernel module options Daniel Wagner
2021-04-19 16:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-04-20 12:37 ` Daniel Wagner
2021-04-20 14:51 ` Himanshu Madhani
2021-04-20 15:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-04-20 17:27 ` Benjamin Block
2021-04-20 17:35 ` Roman Bolshakov
2021-04-20 18:28 ` Daniel Wagner
2021-04-21 0:25 ` [EXT] " Arun Easi
2021-04-21 7:56 ` Daniel Wagner
2021-04-27 9:51 ` Daniel Wagner
2021-04-27 22:35 ` Arun Easi
2021-04-28 7:17 ` Daniel Wagner
2021-04-28 14:51 ` James Smart [this message]
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