The FBA discipline does not use retries for failed requests.  A request fails
after the first unsuccessful start attempt.  There are some rare conditions
(e.g.  CIO path recovery) in which the start of an i/o on a fba device can
fail.  A tiny amount of retries is therefore reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>