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authorStefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com>2006-03-24 03:15:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-24 07:33:17 -0800
commit842d3fba94ed94cc5de7b712e0f4218ce6e4fd73 (patch)
tree2650ba0ce392479ede2c210cf58c3690c6b004c0 /drivers
parent20c644680af1ef9a6b36c0873f59498c98b07ab1 (diff)
[PATCH] s390: tape retry flooding by deferred CC in interrupt
If a deferred CC happens there will be lots of messages, because the retry is done immediatly in the interrupt handler which can be too fast. To avoid this requeue the request and schedule the queue to be processed. Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com> 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/s390/char/tape_core.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/tape_core.c b/drivers/s390/char/tape_core.c
index 4ea438c749c..c42f5e25024 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/char/tape_core.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/char/tape_core.c
@@ -1064,15 +1064,16 @@ __tape_do_irq (struct ccw_device *cdev, unsigned long intparm, struct irb *irb)
/*
* If the condition code is not zero and the start function bit is
* still set, this is an deferred error and the last start I/O did
- * not succeed. Restart the request now.
+ * not succeed. At this point the condition that caused the deferred
+ * error might still apply. So we just schedule the request to be
+ * started later.
*/
if (irb->scsw.cc != 0 && (irb->scsw.fctl & SCSW_FCTL_START_FUNC)) {
PRINT_WARN("(%s): deferred cc=%i. restaring\n",
cdev->dev.bus_id,
irb->scsw.cc);
- rc = __tape_start_io(device, request);
- if (rc)
- __tape_end_request(device, request, rc);
+ request->status = TAPE_REQUEST_QUEUED;
+ schedule_work(&device->tape_dnr);
return;
}