Bug 15563

Summary: SCSI Generic timeout is NOOP
Product: IO/Storage Reporter: Mike Hayward (mh-linux-kernel)
Component: SCSIAssignee: linux-scsi (linux-scsi)
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: saumyakuanr, witallwang
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.18-2.6.32 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description Mike Hayward 2010-03-17 22:18:11 UTC
When sg_io_hdr.timeout is set to say 20000 ms, READ_10 and WRITE_10 commands succeed after 30 or even 40 seconds without an error.  SCSI Generic HOWTO documents timeout as an actual limit to how long the command has to run.