[PATCH 0/8] nvme_fc: add dev_loss_tmo support

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue May 23 00:20:08 PDT 2017


On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:07:14PM -0700, James Smart wrote:
> As the fabrics implementation already has a similar behavior
> introduced on rdma, the ctrl_loss_tmo, which may be set on a
> controller basis (finer granularity than the FC port used for the
> connection), the nvme_fc transport will mediate and choose the lesser
> of the controllers value and the remoteports value.

I would much prefer if nvme-fc could stick to the same controller
concept as rdma.  Especially as it needs to be synchronized with
the reconnect delay and the keep alive timeout (and we need to
do a better job on synchronize the latter to start with I think).



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