Commit 7acf570c authored by Stephen Cameron's avatar Stephen Cameron Committed by James Bottomley
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hpsa: do not request device rescan on every ioaccel path error 



The original reasoning behind doing this was faulty.  An error
of some sort would be encountered, accelerated i/o would be
disabled for that logical drive, the command would be kicked
back out to the SCSI midlayer for a retry, and since i/o accelerator
mode was disabled, it would get retried down the RAID path.
However, something needs to turn ioaccellerator mode back on,
and this rescan request was what did that.  However, it was racy,
and extremely bad for performance to rescan all devices, so,
don't do that.

Reviewed-by: default avatarScott Teel <scott.teel@pmcs.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDon Brace <don.brace@pmcs.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent f2405db8

drivers/scsi/hpsa.c

+2 −12
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@@ -1637,21 +1637,19 @@ static void process_ioaccel2_completion(struct ctlr_info *h, 
		c2->error_data.serv_response ==

			IOACCEL2_SERV_RESPONSE_FAILURE) {

		dev->offload_enabled = 0;

		h->drv_req_rescan = 1;	/* schedule controller for a rescan */

		cmd->result = DID_SOFT_ERROR << 16;

		cmd_free(h, c);

		cmd->scsi_done(cmd);

		return;

	}

	raid_retry = handle_ioaccel_mode2_error(h, c, cmd, c2);

	/* If error found, disable Smart Path, schedule a rescan,

	 * and force a retry on the standard path.

	/* If error found, disable Smart Path,

	 * force a retry on the standard path.

	 */

	if (raid_retry) {

		dev_warn(&h->pdev->dev, "%s: Retrying on standard path.\n",

			"HP SSD Smart Path");

		dev->offload_enabled = 0; /* Disable Smart Path */

		h->drv_req_rescan = 1;	  /* schedule controller rescan */

		cmd->result = DID_SOFT_ERROR << 16;

	}

	cmd_free(h, c);
@@ -6478,9 +6476,6 @@ static void hpsa_ack_ctlr_events(struct ctlr_info *h) 
	int i;

	char *event_type;



	/* Clear the driver-requested rescan flag */

	h->drv_req_rescan = 0;



	/* Ask the controller to clear the events we're handling. */

	if ((h->transMethod & (CFGTBL_Trans_io_accel1

			| CFGTBL_Trans_io_accel2)) &&
@@ -6526,9 +6521,6 @@ static void hpsa_ack_ctlr_events(struct ctlr_info *h) 
 */

static int hpsa_ctlr_needs_rescan(struct ctlr_info *h)

{

	if (h->drv_req_rescan)

		return 1;



	if (!(h->fw_support & MISC_FW_EVENT_NOTIFY))

		return 0;
@@ -6574,7 +6566,6 @@ static void hpsa_monitor_ctlr_worker(struct work_struct *work) 


	if (hpsa_ctlr_needs_rescan(h) || hpsa_offline_devices_ready(h)) {

		scsi_host_get(h->scsi_host);

		h->drv_req_rescan = 0;

		hpsa_ack_ctlr_events(h);

		hpsa_scan_start(h->scsi_host);

		scsi_host_put(h->scsi_host);
@@ -6743,7 +6734,6 @@ reinit_after_soft_reset: 
		/* Enable Accelerated IO path at driver layer */

		h->acciopath_status = 1;



	h->drv_req_rescan = 0;



	/* Turn the interrupts on so we can service requests */

	h->access.set_intr_mask(h, HPSA_INTR_ON);

drivers/scsi/hpsa.h

+0 −1
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@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ struct ctlr_info { 
	spinlock_t offline_device_lock;

	struct list_head offline_device_list;

	int	acciopath_status;

	int	drv_req_rescan;	/* flag for driver to request rescan event */

	int	raid_offload_debug;

};

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