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authorMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2018-01-12 19:53:40 -0500
committerMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2018-01-29 13:44:54 -0500
commitac514ffc968bf14649dd0e048447dc966ee49555 (patch)
tree5f855e84e686deabbe559f2b7f4e440e5c8fd2c5 /include
parent459b54019cfeb7330ed4863ad40f78489e0ff23d (diff)
downloadlinux-ac514ffc968bf14649dd0e048447dc966ee49555.tar.gz
dm mpath: delay the retry of a request if the target responded as busy
Add DM_ENDIO_DELAY_REQUEUE to allow request-based multipath's
multipath_end_io() to instruct dm-rq.c:dm_done() to delay a requeue.
This is beneficial to do if BLK_STS_RESOURCE is returned from the target
(because target is busy).

Relative to blk-mq: kick the hw queues via blk_mq_requeue_work(),
indirectly from dm-rq.c:__dm_mq_kick_requeue_list(), after a delay.

For old .request_fn: use blk_delay_queue().

bio-based multipath doesn't have feature parity with request-based for
retryable error requeues; that is something that'll need fixing in the
future.

Suggested-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
[as interpreted from Bart's "... patch looks fine to me."]
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device-mapper.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/device-mapper.h b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
index 9ba84532947d..da83f64952e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/device-mapper.h
+++ b/include/linux/device-mapper.h
@@ -550,6 +550,7 @@ do {									\
 #define DM_ENDIO_DONE		0
 #define DM_ENDIO_INCOMPLETE	1
 #define DM_ENDIO_REQUEUE	2
+#define DM_ENDIO_DELAY_REQUEUE	3
 
 /*
  * Definitions of return values from target map function.
@@ -557,7 +558,7 @@ do {									\
 #define DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED	0
 #define DM_MAPIO_REMAPPED	1
 #define DM_MAPIO_REQUEUE	DM_ENDIO_REQUEUE
-#define DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE	3
+#define DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE	DM_ENDIO_DELAY_REQUEUE
 #define DM_MAPIO_KILL		4
 
 #define dm_sector_div64(x, y)( \