nvme-cli format timeout
Paul Grabinar
paul.grabinar at ranbarg.com
Thu Jul 23 13:03:37 PDT 2015
Hi,
I am aware of some NVMe drives that take well over 60 seconds to perform
a format and therefore timeout during the format command issued by nvme-cli.
We might want to consider increasing the timeout. The following patch is
an example to show what I mean.
Thanks.
diff --git a/nvme.c b/nvme.c
index 02f4dec..5c99dea 100644
--- a/nvme.c
+++ b/nvme.c
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
#define min(x, y) (x) > (y) ? (y) : (x)
+#define FORMAT_TIMEOUT 120000 // 120 seconds
+
static int fd;
static struct stat nvme_stat;
static const char *devicename;
@@ -2132,6 +2134,7 @@ static int format(int argc, char **argv)
cmd.opcode = nvme_admin_format_nvm;
cmd.nsid = cfg.namespace_id;
cmd.cdw10 = (cfg.lbaf << 0) | (cfg.ms << 4) | (cfg.pi << 5) | (cfg.pil << 8) | (cfg.ses << 9);
+ cmd.timeout_ms = FORMAT_TIMEOUT;
err = ioctl(fd, NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD, &cmd);
if (err < 0)
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