Re: [PATCH RFC v3 01/41] scsi: add 'nr_reserved_cmds' field to the SCSI host template

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On 2020-04-30 06:18, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Quite a lot of drivers are using management commands internally, which
> typically use the same hardware tag pool (ie they are being allocated
> from the same hardware resources) as the 'normal' I/O commands.
> These commands are set aside before allocating the block-mq tag bitmap,
> so they'll never show up as busy in the tag map.
> The block-layer, OTOH, already has 'reserved_tags' to handle precisely
> this situation.
> So this patch adds a new field 'nr_reserved_cmds' to the SCSI host
> template to instruct the block layer to set aside a tag space for these
> management commands by using reserved_tags.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>



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