[RFC PATCH 07/14] nvme: Add RECOVERING nvme controller state

[Sagi Grimberg]

On 25/12/2025 19:17, Mohamed Khalfella wrote:
> On Thu 2025-12-25 15:29:52 +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>>
>> On 26/11/2025 4:11, Mohamed Khalfella wrote:
>>> Add NVME_CTRL_RECOVERING as a new controller state to be used when
>>> impacted controller is being recovered. A LIVE controller enters
>>> RECOVERING state when an IO error is encountered. While recovering
>>> inflight IOs will not be canceled if they timeout. These IOs will be
>>> canceled after recovery finishes. Also, while recovering a controller
>>> can not be reset or deleted. This is intentional because reset or delete
>>> will result in canceling inflight IOs. When recovery finishes, the
>>> impacted controller transitions from RECOVERING state to RESETTING state.
>>> Reset codepath takes care of queues teardown and inflight requests
>>> cancellation.
>> Is RECOVERING really capturing the nature of this state? Maybe RESETTLING?
>> or QUIESCING?
> Naming is hard. QUIESCING sounds better, I will renaming it to
> QUIESCING.

I actually think that FENCING is probably best to describe what the 
state is used for...