RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Force discovery of LUNs that may have been removed.

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Tue Aug 26 2014 - 18:55:01 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:55 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: hare@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ohering@xxxxxxxx;
> jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Martin K. Petersen
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Force discovery of LUNs that
> may have been removed.
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 08:09:48PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > The host asks the guest to scan when a LUN is removed or added.
> > The only way a guest can identify the removed LUN is when an I/O is
> > attempted on a removed LUN - the SRB status code indicates that the
> > LUN is invalid. We currently handle this SRB status and remove the device.
> >
> > Rather than waiting for an I/O to remove the device, force the
> > discovery of LUNs that may have been removed prior to discovering LUNs
> > that may have been added.
>
> This looks pretty reasonable to me, but I wonder if we should move this up
> to common code so that it happens for any host rescan triggered by sysfs or
> other drivers as well.
Ping. Any decision on if/when this patch may be checked in.

Regards,

K. Y

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