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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:03:58 +0000 (09:03 -0700)
commit 56b26e69c8283121febedd12b3cc193384af46b9 upstream.

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>
[hch: added a better comment explaining the issue]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/storvsc_drv.c

index 91b76cea3e3cb94f9bea8229379d96fbcbfeb2c1..34a8f526908f182c2db00444edb8ec157197dbff 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>
@@ -1285,6 +1286,16 @@ 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;
@@ -1444,6 +1455,7 @@ 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,