Re: [patch 7/12] s390: fba dasd i/o errors.

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 11 July 2005 19:36, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> [patch 7/12] s390: fba dasd i/o errors.
> 
> From: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The FBA discipline does not use retries for failed requests. A request
> fails after the first unsuccessful start attempt. There are some rare
> conditions (e.g. CIO path recovery) in which the start of an i/o on
> a fba device can fail. A tiny amount of retries is therefore
> reasonable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diffstat:
>  drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -urpN linux-2.6/drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c
> --- linux-2.6/drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c	2005-06-17 21:48:29.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c	2005-07-11 17:37:46.000000000 +0200
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>   * Bugreports.to..: <Linux390@xxxxxxxxxx>
>   * (C) IBM Corporation, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, 1999,2000
>   *
> - * $Revision: 1.39 $
> + * $Revision: 1.40 $
>   */
>  
>  #include <linux/config.h>
> @@ -354,6 +354,8 @@ dasd_fba_build_cp(struct dasd_device * d
>  	}
>  	cqr->device = device;
>  	cqr->expires = 5 * 60 * HZ;	/* 5 minutes */
> +	cqr->retries = 32;

2..4 maybe, but 32? This isn't tiny by any account.

> +	cqr->buildclk = get_clock();
>  	cqr->status = DASD_CQR_FILLED;
>  	return cqr;
>  }

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