To properly support multipath-failover handling, the linux block layer has
introduced a special request flag, 'REQ_FAILFAST'. This flag is now used to
return requests immediately in case the device is not operational.
Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The FBA discipline does not use retries for failed requests. A request fails
after the first unsuccessful start attempt. There are some rare conditions
(e.g. CIO path recovery) in which the start of an i/o on a fba device can
fail. A tiny amount of retries is therefore reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Horst Hummel