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: NHorst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>