[dm-devel] [patch] handle reada errors

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

Silently ignore 'errors' for read ahead bios. They can fail in
__make_request with a EWOULDBLOCK. 

Signed-off-by: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6.5/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.5.orig/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c	2005-01-19 14:41:17.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.5/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c	2005-01-21 18:23:07.053071996 +0100
@@ -962,7 +975,9 @@ static int do_end_io(struct multipath *m
 	struct hw_handler *hwh = &m->hw_handler;
 	unsigned err_flags = MP_FAIL_PATH;	/* Default behavior */
 
-	if (!error)
+	/* Silently drop reada errors, since they don't indicate real IO
+	 * errors */
+	if (!error || bio_rw_ahead(bio))
 		return 0;	/* I/O complete */
 
 	spin_lock(&m->lock);