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Matthew R. Ochs d5e26bb1d8 cxlflash: Fix to avoid virtual LUN failover failure
Applications which use virtual LUN's that are backed by a physical LUN
over both adapter ports may experience an I/O failure in the event of a
link loss (e.g. cable pull).

Virtual LUNs may be accessed through one or both ports of the adapter.
This access is encoded in the translation entries that comprise the
virtual LUN and used by the AFU for load-balancing I/O and handling
failover scenarios. In a link loss scenario, even though the AFU is able
to maintain connectivity to the LUN, it is up to the application to
retry the failed I/O. When applications are unaware of the virtual LUN's
underlying topology, they are unable to make a sound decision of when to
retry an I/O and therefore are forced to make their reaction to a failed
I/O absolute. The result is either a failure to retry I/O or increased
latency for scenarios where a retry is pointless.

To remedy this scenario, provide feedback back to the application on
virtual LUN creation as to which ports the LUN may be accessed. LUN's
spanning both ports are candidates for a retry in a presence of an I/O
failure.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manoj Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-01-06 20:50:08 -05:00
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common.h cxlflash: Fix to avoid corrupting adapter fops 2015-10-30 17:20:00 +09:00
Kconfig
lunmgt.c cxlflash: Fix to avoid corrupting port selection mask 2015-10-30 17:23:55 +09:00
main.c cxlflash: Fix to escalate LINK_RESET also on port 1 2016-01-06 20:48:02 -05:00
main.h cxlflash: Fix host link up event handling 2015-10-30 17:12:22 +09:00
Makefile cxlflash: Virtual LUN support 2015-08-26 18:05:39 -07:00
sislite.h cxlflash: Correct spelling, grammar, and alignment mistakes 2015-10-30 17:18:28 +09:00
superpipe.c cxlflash: drop unlikely before IS_ERR_OR_NULL 2015-12-10 12:55:37 -05:00
superpipe.h cxlflash: Fix to avoid corrupting port selection mask 2015-10-30 17:23:55 +09:00
vlun.c cxlflash: Fix to avoid virtual LUN failover failure 2016-01-06 20:50:08 -05:00
vlun.h cxlflash: Virtual LUN support 2015-08-26 18:05:39 -07:00