[LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] TP4129 KATO correctoins and clarification

[Daniel Wagner]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 12:02:59PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 1/31/25 10:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 10:24:31AM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The KATO handling in the spec got updated via the TP4129. In short it
> > > mandatas that failing requests should be delayed by some value before
> > > retried on a different path.
> > 
> > TP4129 is broken and the TWG has been told that.  There is absolutely no
> > point in either implementing it or rehashing the discussion over and
> > over again.  Concentrate on making 8028 useful instead.  And if you want
> > a discussion, "why do people people push stupid things though the
> > NVMe TWG and then comaplain later about the lack of implementations"
> > might be more useful.
> 
> Okay, let's rephrase that to 'Improve NVMe-oF error handling'.
> We are trying to get TP8028 out into the open until LSF,
> then we can discuss that and also how to fold in the
> 'command cancel' patchset into the overall picture.

Yes, that basically was the idea for this proposal. I should have called
it differently. 'Improve NVMe-oF error handling' sounds about right.