[ofw] ***SPAM*** Re: [Scst-devel] [ofa-general] Re: SRP Target Session Hangs

Vladislav Bolkhovitin vst at vlnb.net
Tue Dec 18 09:00:35 PST 2007


Vu Pham wrote:
> Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> 
>>Vu Pham wrote:
>>
>>>>>3) This may not be the forum for this, but how can you terminate a 
>>>>>session using SCST proc commands?
>>>>
>>>>SCST can't (and shouldn't) do that, because it has no knowledge about 
>>>>how sessions with particular target transport created and destroyed. 
>>>>Sessions management is the target driver's duty. Ask Vu that feature.
>>>
>>>Normally {srp connection, scst session} will be destroyed upon 
>>>disconnect reques or new connection request (without multi-channels 
>>>flag) coming from initiator or QP is in error condition.
>>>
>>>Sometimes we fail to terminate scst session when there are outstanding 
>>>I/Os on scst session which does not match the outstanding I/Os on the 
>>>srp connection. Right after srp calls scst_init_cmd_done, it increases 
>>>the active command counter and decreases the counter on on_free_command.
>>>
>>>Any idea Vlad?
>>
>>Sorry, I don't understand, what's the problem with them?
> 
> I keep track of the number of outstanding scst_cmnd on a 
> {srp connection, scst session} and it does not match with 
> scst_sess->refcnt - or it should be off by 1; however, it 
> does not. Therefore scst_unregister_session (wait 1) stuck 
> most of the time.

It's still not clear for me. Why scst_unregister_session() stuck? Do you 
have any logs/traces? I've not seen such problems with other target 
drivers for a lo-o-ong time.

> -vu
> 
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