Re: [PATCH 03/20] [SCSI] mpt3sas: Don't block the drive when drive addition under the control of SML

[Martin K. Petersen]

> During hot-plugging of a disk(having a flaky link), the disk addition
> stops and any further disk addition or removal doesn't happen on that
> controller.

> This is because, when driver receives DELAY_NOT_RESPONDING event for
> a disk while it is undergoing addition at the SCSI Transport layer,
> the driver would block the I/O to that disk resulting in a
> deadlock. i.e the disk addition work couldn't be completed at the
> SCSI Transport Layer as it can't send any I/Os (such as Inquiry,
> Report LUNs etc) to the disk as I/Os are blocked to this drive. Also
> any subsequent device removal (TARGET_NOT_RESPONDING) or link
> update(RC_PHY_CHANGED) event couldn't be processed as they are in the
> queue to get processed after disk addition event.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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