[v4,0/5] scsi: Support to handle Intermittent errors

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Muneendra Kumar M Oct. 22, 2020, 12:34 p.m. UTC

This patch adds a support to prevent retries of all the
io's after an abort succeeds on a particular device when transport
connectivity to the device is encountering intermittent errors.

Intermittent connectivity is a condition that can be detected by transport
fabric notifications. A service can monitor the ELS notifications and
take action on all the outstanding io's of a scsi device at that instant.

This feature is intended to be used when the device is part of a multipath
environment. When the service detects the poor connectivity, the multipath
path can be placed in a marginal path group and ignored further io
operations.

After placing a path in the marginal path group,the daemon sets the
port_state to Marginal which sets bit in scmd->state for all the
io's on that particular device with the new sysfs interface
provided in this patch.This prevent retries of all the
io's if an io hits a scsi timeout which inturn issues an abort.
On Abort succeeds on a marginal path the io will be immediately retried on
another active path.On abort fails then the things escalates to existing
target reset sg interface recovery process.

Below is the interface provided to set the port state to Marginal
and Online.
echo "Marginal" >> /sys/class/fc_remote_ports/rport-X\:Y-Z/port_state
echo "Online" >> /sys/class/fc_remote_ports/rport-X\:Y-Z/port_state


The patches were cut against  5.10/scsi-queue tree

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v4:
Made changes in fc_eh_timed_out callout to set the SCMD_NORETRIES_ABORT if port
state is marginal 

With this change, we  removed the code  to loop over running commands
and fc_remote_port_chkready changes to set the SCMD_NORETRIES_ABORT 

Removed the scsi_cmd argument for fc_remote_port_chkready
and reverted back the patches that addressed this change(argument)

Removed unnecessary comments
Handle the return of errors on failure.

v3:
Removed the port_state from starget attributes.
Enabled the store functionality for port_state under remote port
Added a new argument to scsi_cmd  to fc_remote_port_chkready
Used the existing scsi command iterators scsi_host_busy_iter.
Rearranged the patches
Added new patches to add new argument for fc_remote_port_chkready

v2:
Added new error code DID_TRANSPORT_MARGINAL to handle marginal errors.
Added a new rport_state FC_PORTSTATE_MARGINAL and also added a new
sysfs interface port_state to set the port_state to marginal.
Added the support in lpfc to handle the marginal state.



Muneendra (5):
  scsi: Added a new definition in scsi_cmnd.h
  scsi: Added a new error code in scsi.h
  scsi: No retries on abort success
  scsi_transport_fc: Added a new rport state FC_PORTSTATE_MARGINAL
  scsi_transport_fc: Added store fucntionality to set the rport
    port_state using sysfs

 drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c        | 10 ++++
 drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c          |  2 +
 drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 include/scsi/scsi.h              |  1 +
 include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h         |  3 +
 include/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.h | 19 +++++++
 6 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)