Revision 35991652baa12ff3d0e420c0d0cb2ad9f7076e5b authored by Mikulas Patocka on 02 June 2012, 23:29:58 UTC, committed by Alasdair G Kergon on 02 June 2012, 23:29:58 UTC
After the failure of a group of paths, any alternative paths that need initialising do not become available until further I/O is sent to the device. Until this has happened, ioctls return -EAGAIN. With this patch, new paths are made available in response to an ioctl too. The processing of the ioctl gets delayed until this has happened. Instead of returning an error, we submit a work item to kmultipathd (that will potentially activate the new path) and retry in ten milliseconds. Note that the patch doesn't retry an ioctl if the ioctl itself fails due to a path failure. Such retries should be handled intelligently by the code that generated the ioctl in the first place, noting that some SCSI commands should not be retried because they are not idempotent (XOR write commands). For commands that could be retried, there is a danger that if the device rejected the SCSI command, the path could be errorneously marked as failed, and the request would be retried on another path which might fail too. It can be determined if the failure happens on the device or on the SCSI controller, but there is no guarantee that all SCSI drivers set these flags correctly. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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br_notify.c
/*
* Device event handling
* Linux ethernet bridge
*
* Authors:
* Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@gnu.org>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/rtnetlink.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include "br_private.h"
static int br_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event, void *ptr);
struct notifier_block br_device_notifier = {
.notifier_call = br_device_event
};
/*
* Handle changes in state of network devices enslaved to a bridge.
*
* Note: don't care about up/down if bridge itself is down, because
* port state is checked when bridge is brought up.
*/
static int br_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused, unsigned long event, void *ptr)
{
struct net_device *dev = ptr;
struct net_bridge_port *p;
struct net_bridge *br;
bool changed_addr;
int err;
/* register of bridge completed, add sysfs entries */
if ((dev->priv_flags & IFF_EBRIDGE) && event == NETDEV_REGISTER) {
br_sysfs_addbr(dev);
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}
/* not a port of a bridge */
p = br_port_get_rtnl(dev);
if (!p)
return NOTIFY_DONE;
br = p->br;
switch (event) {
case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
dev_set_mtu(br->dev, br_min_mtu(br));
break;
case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
br_fdb_changeaddr(p, dev->dev_addr);
changed_addr = br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(br);
spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);
if (changed_addr)
call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, br->dev);
break;
case NETDEV_CHANGE:
br_port_carrier_check(p);
break;
case NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE:
netdev_update_features(br->dev);
break;
case NETDEV_DOWN:
spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
if (br->dev->flags & IFF_UP)
br_stp_disable_port(p);
spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);
break;
case NETDEV_UP:
if (netif_carrier_ok(dev) && (br->dev->flags & IFF_UP)) {
spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
br_stp_enable_port(p);
spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);
}
break;
case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
br_del_if(br, dev);
break;
case NETDEV_CHANGENAME:
err = br_sysfs_renameif(p);
if (err)
return notifier_from_errno(err);
break;
case NETDEV_PRE_TYPE_CHANGE:
/* Forbid underlaying device to change its type. */
return NOTIFY_BAD;
}
/* Events that may cause spanning tree to refresh */
if (event == NETDEV_CHANGEADDR || event == NETDEV_UP ||
event == NETDEV_CHANGE || event == NETDEV_DOWN)
br_ifinfo_notify(RTM_NEWLINK, p);
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}
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