Hi all,
quite some drivers use internal commands for various purposes, most
commonly sending TMFs or querying the HBA status.
While these commands use the same submission mechanism than normal
I/O commands, they will not be counted as outstanding commands,
requiring those drivers to implement their own mechanism to figure
out outstanding commands.
The block layer already has the concept of 'reserved' tags for
precisely this purpose, namely non-I/O tags which live off a separate
tag pool. That guarantees that these commands can always be sent,
and won't be influenced by tag starvation from the I/O tag pool.
This patchset enables the use of reserved tags for the SCSI midlayer
by allocating a virtual LUN for the HBA itself which just serves
as a resource to allocate valid tags from.
This removes quite some hacks which were required for some
drivers (eg. fnic or snic), and allows the use of tagset
iterators within the drivers.
The entire patchset can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hare/scsi-devel.git reserved-tags.v4
As usual, comments and reviews are welcome.
Changes to v3:
- Kill gdth
- Only convert fnic, snic, hpsa, and aacraid
- Drop command emulation for pseudo host device
- make 'can_queue' exclude the number or reserved tags
- Drop persistent commands proposal
- Sanitize host device handling
Changes to v2:
- Update patches from John Garry
- Use virtual LUN as suggested by Christoph
- Improve SCSI Host device to present a real SCSI device
- Implement 'persistent' commands for AENs
- Convert Megaraid SAS
Changes to v1:
- Make scsi_{get, put}_reserved_cmd() for Scsi host
- Previously we separate scsi_{get, put}_reserved_cmd() for sdev
and scsi_host_get_reserved_cmd() for the host
- Fix how Scsi_Host.can_queue is set in the virtio-scsi change
- Drop Scsi_Host.use_reserved_cmd_q
- Drop scsi_is_reserved_cmd()
- Add support in libsas and associated HBA drivers
- Allocate reserved command in slow task
- Switch hisi_sas to use reserved Scsi command
- Reorder the series a little
- Some tidying
Hannes Reinecke (22):
scsi: drop gdth driver
block: add flag for internal commands
scsi: add scsi_{get,put}_internal_cmd() helper
fnic: use internal commands
fnic: use scsi_host_busy_iter() to traverse commands
fnic: check for started requests in fnic_wq_copy_cleanup_handler()
csiostor: use internal command for LUN reset
scsi: implement reserved command handling
scsi: use real inquiry data when initialising devices
scsi: Use dummy inquiry data for the host device
scsi: revamp host device handling
snic: use reserved commands
snic: use tagset iter for traversing commands
snic: check for started requests in snic_hba_reset_cmpl_handler()
hpsa: move hpsa_hba_inquiry after scsi_add_host()
hpsa: use reserved commands
hpsa: use scsi_host_busy_iter() to traverse outstanding commands
hpsa: drop refcount field from CommandList
aacraid: move scsi_add_host()
aacraid: store target id in host_scribble
aacraid: use scsi_get_internal_cmd()
aacraid: use scsi_host_busy_iter() to traverse outstanding commands
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 4 +-
Documentation/process/magic-number.rst | 2 -
Documentation/scsi/scsi-parameters.rst | 3 -
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 1 -
block/blk-exec.c | 5 +
drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 14 -
drivers/scsi/Makefile | 2 -
drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c | 137 +-
drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h | 9 +-
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c | 25 +-
drivers/scsi/aacraid/comminit.c | 2 +-
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c | 106 +-
drivers/scsi/aacraid/dpcsup.c | 2 +-
drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 175 +-
drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.c | 48 +-
drivers/scsi/fnic/fnic_scsi.c | 944 ++---
drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 4323 --------------------
drivers/scsi/gdth.h | 981 -----
drivers/scsi/gdth_ioctl.h | 251 --
drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c | 586 ---
drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.h | 18 -
drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 368 +-
drivers/scsi/hpsa.h | 3 +-
drivers/scsi/hpsa_cmd.h | 1 -
drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c | 1 +
drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 51 +-
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 96 +-
drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 3 +-
drivers/scsi/snic/snic.h | 4 +-
drivers/scsi/snic/snic_main.c | 7 +
drivers/scsi/snic/snic_scsi.c | 523 ++-
include/linux/blk_types.h | 2 +
include/linux/blkdev.h | 5 +
include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 3 +
include/scsi/scsi_host.h | 25 +-
35 files changed, 1238 insertions(+), 7492 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 drivers/scsi/gdth.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/scsi/gdth.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/scsi/gdth_ioctl.h
delete mode 100644 drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.c
delete mode 100644 drivers/scsi/gdth_proc.h
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