Re: [PATCH] virtio_scsi: let host do exception handling

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Mon Jun 26 2017 - 13:11:54 EST



Paolo,

> virtio_scsi tries to do exception handling after the default 30
> seconds timeout expires. However, it's better to let the host control
> the timeout, otherwise with a heavy I/O load it is likely that an
> abort will also timeout. This leads to fatal errors like filesystems
> going offline.
>
> Disable the 'sd' timeout and allow the host to do exception handling,
> following the precedent of the storvsc driver.

Applied to 4.13/scsi-queue. Thank you!

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering