[PATCH] nvme: allow timed-out ios to retry
Sagi Grimberg
sagi at grimberg.me
Wed Sep 20 04:27:58 PDT 2017
>> I'm a bit conflicted on this. While it'd be nice to give commands a chance
>> to succeed after a timeout handling's controller reset, some uses would
>> rather a command fail fast than succeed slow, and this change could keep
>> a request outstanding for a very long time.
>
> That's what we have the fastfail flags for, which we set for all
> the internal commands for example… and evaluate just a little bit
> above the start_time line.
I'm 100% on board with this change!
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
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