This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled iscsi-target: Only perform wait_for_tasks when performing shutdown to the 3.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: iscsi-target-only-perform-wait_for_tasks-when-performing-shutdown.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e255a28598e8e63070322fc89bd34189dd660a89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 13:37:21 -0700 Subject: iscsi-target: Only perform wait_for_tasks when performing shutdown From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e255a28598e8e63070322fc89bd34189dd660a89 upstream. This patch changes transport_generic_free_cmd() to only wait_for_tasks when shutdown=true is passed to iscsit_free_cmd(). With the advent of >= v3.10 iscsi-target code using se_cmd->cmd_kref, the extra wait_for_tasks with shutdown=false is unnecessary, and may end up causing an extra context switch when releasing WRITEs. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c +++ b/drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_util.c @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ void iscsit_free_cmd(struct iscsi_cmd *c * Fallthrough */ case ISCSI_OP_SCSI_TMFUNC: - rc = transport_generic_free_cmd(&cmd->se_cmd, 1); + rc = transport_generic_free_cmd(&cmd->se_cmd, shutdown); if (!rc && shutdown && se_cmd && se_cmd->se_sess) { __iscsit_free_cmd(cmd, true, shutdown); target_put_sess_cmd(se_cmd->se_sess, se_cmd); @@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ void iscsit_free_cmd(struct iscsi_cmd *c se_cmd = &cmd->se_cmd; __iscsit_free_cmd(cmd, true, shutdown); - rc = transport_generic_free_cmd(&cmd->se_cmd, 1); + rc = transport_generic_free_cmd(&cmd->se_cmd, shutdown); if (!rc && shutdown && se_cmd->se_sess) { __iscsit_free_cmd(cmd, true, shutdown); target_put_sess_cmd(se_cmd->se_sess, se_cmd); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/iscsi-target-only-perform-wait_for_tasks-when-performing-shutdown.patch queue-3.11/ib_srpt-destroy-cm_id-before-destroying-qp.patch queue-3.11/ib_srpt-always-set-response-for-task-management.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html