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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Yihang Li <liyihang9@huawei.com>,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	prime.zeng@huawei.com, linuxarm@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: sd: retry command SYNC CACHE if format in progress
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 12:09:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1cd0b145-431a-4d9f-979f-04d4063eeda8@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240808021719.4167352-1-liyihang9@huawei.com>

On 8/7/24 7:17 PM, Yihang Li wrote:
> If formatting a suspended disk (such as formatting with different DIF
> type), the SYNC CACHE command will fail because the disk is in the
> formatting process, which will cause the runtime_status of the disk to
> error and it is difficult for user to recover it.
> 
> To solve the issue, retry the command until format command is finished.

How is the format command submitted to the SCSI disk? Is that command
perhaps submitted as a SCSI pass-through command (SG_IO ioctl)?

Should the sd driver perhaps be unbound while the format command is in
progress?

Thanks,

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-08 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-08  2:17 Yihang Li
2024-08-08 19:09 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2024-08-09  3:44   ` Yihang Li
2024-08-09 19:14     ` Bart Van Assche
2024-08-10  1:46       ` Yihang Li
2024-08-13  1:33       ` Martin K. Petersen

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