[PATCH] nvmet: Set ctrl->kato to a default NVMET_DISC_KATO value
Sagi Grimberg
sagi at grimberg.me
Mon Sep 14 19:53:47 EDT 2020
> Hi Sagi,
> Still dealing with keep-alive timeout zero value and how it affects other scenarios:
> With my latest patch, when keep alive timeout is set to zero the keep-alive timer is disabled. (Upstream commit 0d3b6a8d213a30387b5104b2fb25376d18636f23)
> But that’s only part of the picture,
> What happens if a user starts with kato > 0 and modifying it by set feature a while after?
> After modifying the kato to 0 with a set features we will never stop the timer
> In a similar way, when starting with kato 0 and then modify to kato > 0 we will never start the timer
>
> We thought about solve it by adding checks in ‘nvmet_set_feat_kato’ for the above cases
> And handle the ka_work accordingly
> What do you think ?
We can probably just cancel and restart the keep alive timer in that
case..
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