Lars Marowsky-Bree <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> READA errors failing with EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN do not constitute a valid
> reason for failing the path; this lead to erratic errors on DM multipath
> devices. This error can be safely propagated upwards without failing the
> path.
>
Why do you describe this as a -mm patch? We want this in 2.6.12, no?
> --- linux-2.6.12-rc6-mm1.orig/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c 2005-06-08 12:51:02.741055000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.12-rc6-mm1/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c 2005-06-08 12:57:55.757828867 +0200
> @@ -985,6 +985,9 @@
> if (!error)
> return 0; /* I/O complete */
>
> + if ((error == -EWOULDBLOCK) && bio_rw_ahead(bio))
> + return error;
> +
> spin_lock(&m->lock);
> if (!m->nr_valid_paths) {
> if (!m->queue_if_no_path || m->suspended) {
>
>
> --
> High Availability & Clustering
> SUSE Labs, Research and Development
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin
> "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
