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Stefan Richter authored
Fix I/O stalls with some 4-bay RAID enclosures which are based on OXUF936QSE: - Onnto dataTale RSM4QO, old firmware (not anymore with current firmware), - inXtron Hydra Super-S LCM, old as well as current firmware when used in RAID-5 mode, perhaps also in other RAID modes. The stalls happen during heavy or moderate disk traffic in periods that are a multiple of 5 minutes, roughly twice per hour. They are caused by the target responding too late to an ORB_Pointer register write: The target responds after Split_Timeout, hence firewire-core cancels the transaction, and firewire-sbp2 fails the SCSI request. The SCSI core retries the request, that fails again (and again), hence SCSI core calls firewire-sbp2's abort handler (and even the Management_Agent register write in the abort handler has the transaction timeout problem). During all that, the process which issued the I/O is stalled in I/O wait state. Meanwhile, the target actually acts on the first failed SCSI request: It responds to the ORB_Pointer write later (seen in the kernel log as "firewire_core: Unsolicited response") and also finishes the SCSI request with proper status (seen in the kernel log as "firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb"). So let's just ignore RCODE_CANCELLED in the transaction callback and wait for the target to complete the ORB nevertheless. This requires a small modification is sbp2_cancel_orbs(); it now needs to call orb->callback() regardless whether fw_cancel_transaction() found the transaction unfinished or finished. A different solution is to increase Split_Timeout on the local node. (Tested: 2000ms timeout; maybe 1000ms or something like that works too. 200ms is insufficient. Standard is 100ms.) However, I rather not do this because any software on any node could change the Split_Timeout to something unsuitable. Or such a large Split_Timeout may be undesirable for other purposes. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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