Re: [PATCH 08/18] nvme: Implement cross-controller reset recovery

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 9/18/26 8:14 PM, Mohamed Khalfella wrote:
> A host that has more than one path connecting to an nvme subsystem
> typically has an nvme controller associated with every path. This is
> mostly applicable to nvmeof. If one path goes down, inflight IOs on that
> path should not be retried immediately on another path because this
> could lead to data corruption as described in TP4129. TP8028 defines
> cross-controller reset mechanism that can be used by host to terminate
> IOs on the failed path using one of the remaining healthy paths. Only
> after IOs are terminated, or long enough time passes as defined by
> TP4129, inflight IOs should be retried on another path. Implement core
> cross-controller reset shared logic to be used by the transports.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/host/constants.c |   1 +
>   drivers/nvme/host/core.c      | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h      |  10 +++
>   3 files changed, 163 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,

Hannes
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