Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Implement a eh_timed_out handler
authorK. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:48:30 +0000 (09:48 -0700)
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fri, 25 Jul 2014 21:17:03 +0000 (17:17 -0400)
On Azure, we have seen instances of unbounded I/O latencies. To deal with
this issue, implement handler that can reset the timeout. Note that the
host gaurantees that it will respond to each command that has been issued.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[hch: added a better comment explaining the issue]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c

index 7e8a642516817f4bc2b3f1fc658e47174b56363d..2b8595b7ad45d6c5116038b573d10eb58daaaacc 100644 (file)
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/hyperv.h>
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi_cmnd.h>
 #include <scsi/scsi_host.h>
@@ -1518,6 +1519,16 @@ static int storvsc_host_reset_handler(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
        return SUCCESS;
 }
 
+/*
+ * The host guarantees to respond to each command, although I/O latencies might
+ * be unbounded on Azure.  Reset the timer unconditionally to give the host a
+ * chance to perform EH.
+ */
+static enum blk_eh_timer_return storvsc_eh_timed_out(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
+{
+       return BLK_EH_RESET_TIMER;
+}
+
 static bool storvsc_scsi_cmd_ok(struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
 {
        bool allowed = true;
@@ -1697,6 +1708,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template scsi_driver = {
        .bios_param =           storvsc_get_chs,
        .queuecommand =         storvsc_queuecommand,
        .eh_host_reset_handler =        storvsc_host_reset_handler,
+       .eh_timed_out =         storvsc_eh_timed_out,
        .slave_alloc =          storvsc_device_alloc,
        .slave_destroy =        storvsc_device_destroy,
        .slave_configure =      storvsc_device_configure,