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authorEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>2012-12-17 16:04:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-17 17:15:25 -0800
commitc450ba0fc12153cb5d3fd582b4ec82c75217a989 (patch)
tree2acf7807aed922a2bb444b8b4f67d40961372331 /Documentation
parent71114ec45f09eb6ef6f9d41c98d4ab6455086e58 (diff)
downloadlinux-c450ba0fc12153cb5d3fd582b4ec82c75217a989.tar.gz
aoe: allow user to disable target failure timeout
With this change, the aoe driver treats the value zero as special for
the aoe_deadsecs module parameter.  Normally, this value specifies the
number of seconds during which the driver will continue to attempt
retransmits to an unresponsive AoE target.  After aoe_deadsecs has
elapsed, the aoe driver marks the aoe device as "down" and fails all
I/O.

The new meaning of an aoe_deadsecs of zero is for the driver to
retransmit commands indefinitely.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt
index bfc9cb19abcd..c71487d399d1 100644
--- a/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt
@@ -125,7 +125,9 @@ DRIVER OPTIONS
   The aoe_deadsecs module parameter determines the maximum number of
   seconds that the driver will wait for an AoE device to provide a
   response to an AoE command.  After aoe_deadsecs seconds have
-  elapsed, the AoE device will be marked as "down".
+  elapsed, the AoE device will be marked as "down".  A value of zero
+  is supported for testing purposes and makes the aoe driver keep
+  trying AoE commands forever.
 
   The aoe_maxout module parameter has a default of 128.  This is the
   maximum number of unresponded packets that will be sent to an AoE