Re: [RFC-v3.10.y 5/8] iser-target: Parallelize CM connection establishment

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On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 23:24 +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> On 1/28/2015 8:24 PM, Chris Moore wrote:
> >> On 1/27/2015 6:05 PM, Chris Moore wrote:
> >> <SNIP>
> >>> I haven't tried testing these against the latest 3.10.  I tried
> >>> applying them to the RHEL 7.1 Snap3 kernel but they wouldn't apply
> >>> cleanly - too many other changes to 3.10 haven't been picked up yet by RH.
> >>>
> >>> I applied all the changes by hand to RHEL 7.1 and had no problems with
> >>> booting, but the first time I try to login from the initiator I get a hang on the
> >> target.
> >>
> >> rrr...
> >>
> >>
> >> Can you share your log (with debug?). This is probably patches 5,6 which
> >> might be better heading to 3.12+.
> >>
> >> Patches 1,2 are harmless obviously.
> >> Patches 3,4,8 handle some issues in session teardown sequence.
> >> Patches 5,6 handle issues in the login sequence (probably causing your
> >> RHEL7.1 to hang...)
> >> Patch 7 is a fix for bond failover test case, but won't work without patch 5
> >> applied.
> >>
> >> Sagi.
> >
> > I built a 3.10.65 kernel and applied the 8 patches.  All 8 applied with no issues.
> > The system booted fine  and I was able to login from the initiator, no sign of
> > the hang I was seeing with RHEL 7.1.
> >
> > I ran about an hour of I/O to 16 LUNs and did about a dozen cable pulls during
> > the I/O run with no issues.
> 
> Hah! good to know...
> 
> >
> > So these 8 patches seem to fix the problems I was having before with cable
> > pulls causing the target to go out to lunch.  Now I need to figure out how
> > to get them to work with the RHEL 7.1 kernel.
> >
> 
> I think it would be better to apply the deltas between 7.1 and 3.10.65
> and this series on top of it (not sure how easy that would be...).
> 
> I'll try to have a look tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks Chris!

Thanks for verifying the series atop 3.10.65 code.

If there aren't any objections from Sagi & Co, I'll go ahead and post
the series for Greg-KH to pickup for queue-3.10 this afternoon.

--nab

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