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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2011-12-03 01:07:01 +0100
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2012-02-19 21:13:51 +0100
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parent[SCSI] libsas: perform sas-transport resets in shost->workq context (diff)
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[SCSI] libsas: execute transport link resets with libata-eh via host workqueue
Link resets leave ata affiliations intact, so arrange for libsas to make an effort to avoid dropping the device due to a slow-to-recover link. Towards this end carry out reset in the host workqueue so that it can check for ata devices and kick the reset request to libata. Hard resets, in contrast, bypass libata since they are meant for associating an ata device with another initiator in the domain (tears down affiliations). Need to add a new transport_sas_phy_reset() since the current sas_phy_reset() is a utility function to libsas lldds. They are not prepared for it to loop back into eh. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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