Re: [PATCH] scsi: core: Do not retry I/Os during depopulation

[Igor Pylypiv]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 02:36:35PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 1/30/25 2:26 PM, Igor Pylypiv wrote:
> > Fail I/Os instead of retry to prevent user space processes from being
> > blocked on the I/O completion for several minutes.
> > 
> > Retrying I/Os during "depopulation in progress" or "depopulation restore
> > in progress" results in a continuous retry loop until the depopulation
> > completes or until the I/O retry loop is aborted due to a timeout by
> > the scsi_cmd_runtime_exceeced().
> > 
> > Depopulation is slow and can take 24+ hours to complete on 20+ TB HDDs.
> > Most I/Os in the depopulation retry loop end up taking several minutes
> > before returning the failure to user space.
> 
> Since this patch is a bug fix, please add Fixes: and Cc: stable tags.

Thank you, Bart. I'll add the following tags to v2:

    Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.18.x: 2bbeb8d scsi: core: Handle depopulation and restoration in progress"
    Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.18.x
    Fixes: e37c7d9a0341 ("scsi: core: sanitize++ in progress")

Thanks,
Igor

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.