RE: [PATCH] storvsc: Avoid excessive host scan on controller change

[Long Li]

> From: Martin K. Petersen [mailto:martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 7:40 PM
> To: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Haiyang Zhang
> <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Stephen Hemminger
> <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; James E . J . Bottomley
> <JBottomley@xxxxxxxx>; Martin K . Petersen
> <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>; devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] storvsc: Avoid excessive host scan on controller change
> 
> 
> Long,
> 
> > When there are multiple disks attached to the same SCSI controller,
> > the host may send several VSTOR_OPERATION_REMOVE_DEVICE or
> > VSTOR_OPERATION_ENUMERATE_BUS messages in a row, to indicate
> there is
> > a change on the SCSI controller. In response, storvsc rescans the SCSI
> > host.
> 
> Applied to 4.15/scsi-queue with some fuzz. Please verify, thanks!

Martin, thank you! All looking good.

Long

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> Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering