[PATCH 3/5] nvme-rdma: Make sure to shutdown the controller if we can
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Mon Aug 1 08:48:40 PDT 2016
On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 02:17:37PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>>> - if (ctrl->ctrl.state == NVME_CTRL_LIVE)
>>> + if (test_bit(NVME_RDMA_Q_CONNECTED, &ctrl->queues[0].flags))
>>> nvme_shutdown_ctrl(&ctrl->ctrl);
>>>
>>> blk_mq_stop_hw_queues(ctrl->ctrl.admin_q);
>>
>> Maybe the right way to handle this is to unconditionally call
>> nvme_shutdown_ctrl and make sure we return an early error
>> on the register write?
>
> As I wrote on patch 2/5 reply, I'd like to avoid depending on
> queue_rq to fail early peeking at the ctrl state. This dependency
> can grow in the future and I think we should at least try not to
> go there...
I don't want ->queue_rq to peek at controller state. What I had
in mind was copying the PCIe behavior of failing early in the
timeout handler if we are in the reset handler, which will
mean blk_execute_rq will return ASAP with an error.
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