[PATCH] s390: dasd failfast support
To properly support multipath-failover handling, the linux block layer has
introduced a special request flag, 'REQ_FAILFAST'. This flag is now used to
return requests immediately in case the device is not operational.
Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@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>
diff --git a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c
index 28cb461..9bac8d8 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/block/dasd_fba.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
* Bugreports.to..: <Linux390@de.ibm.com>
* (C) IBM Corporation, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, 1999,2000
*
- * $Revision: 1.40 $
+ * $Revision: 1.41 $
*/
#include <linux/config.h>
@@ -352,6 +352,8 @@
recid++;
}
}
+ if (req->flags & REQ_FAILFAST)
+ set_bit(DASD_CQR_FLAGS_FAILFAST, &cqr->flags);
cqr->device = device;
cqr->expires = 5 * 60 * HZ; /* 5 minutes */
cqr->retries = 32;