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authorKeith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>2008-11-25 10:24:35 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-12-29 08:28:44 +0100
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block: Supress Buffer I/O errors when SCSI REQ_QUIET flag set
Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer. The buffer layer can then suppress needless printks. This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun) buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the logs without this patch. During boot I see blocks of messages like " __ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879 Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872 " in my logs. My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC code and multipathd. This topology includes an "active" and "ghost" path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi layer messages. I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this patch for a while now on several boxes without issue. A few runs of bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup. Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization. Submitted-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/buffer_head.h b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
index 3ce64b9..8605f8a 100644
--- a/include/linux/buffer_head.h
+++ b/include/linux/buffer_head.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ enum bh_state_bits {
BH_Ordered, /* ordered write */
BH_Eopnotsupp, /* operation not supported (barrier) */
BH_Unwritten, /* Buffer is allocated on disk but not written */
+ BH_Quiet, /* Buffer Error Prinks to be quiet */
BH_PrivateStart,/* not a state bit, but the first bit available
* for private allocation by other entities
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