Re: [PATCH] usb/uas: use scsi_host_find_tag() to find command from a tag

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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:12:26PM -0800, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:50:50PM -0500, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 08:39:55PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > In "usb/uas: use unique tags for all LUNs" we make sure to create unique
> > > tags across all LUNs. This patch uses scsi_host_find_tag() to obtain the
> > > correct command which is associated with the tag.
> > > The following changes were required:
> > > - don't use sdev->current_cmnd anymore
> > >   Since be can have devices which don't support command tagging we must
> > >   ensure that we can tell the two commands apart. devinfo->cmnd is used
> > >   for this.
> > 
> > I don't understand.  There's one devinfo per sdev.  How does moving the
> > untagged command anchor from sdev to devinfo change anything?
> 
> I thought there was only one devinfo per USB device.  uas_probe() is
> only called once per USB device, and that's where devinfo is allocated and
> the scsi_host is created.

Oh, duh, there's one devinfo per Scsi_Host.  Sorry, my mistake.

> > It's my understanding that the SCSI core will only send either a single
> > untagged command, or tagged commands.  ie any outstanding tagged command
> > will cause an untagged command to be deferred, and an outstanding untagged
> > command will prevent any other command from being sent to the driver.
> 
> Across all scsi_devices on a scsi_host?

Per scsi_dev ... which of course is insufficient ...

> In the status command completion for USB 2.0 devices, we can't know
> which scsi_device we're completing the command for.  Is it an untagged
> command completion for LUN 1 or LUN 2?  We can't tell, because the
> device could reorder the commands across LUNs.  So for untagged USB 2.0
> devices, we need to be sure there is only one untagged command pending
> per scsi_host, and pull the command out of devinfo.

Yes, makes sense now :-)  So we can have multiple tagged commands to LUN 2
and a single untagged command to LUN 1, which is just fine.
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