The following patches were made over Linus's and Martin's 7.1 trees.
They fix an issue where for virtio-scsi we export a lot of non-scsi
devices but are getting throttled by the cmd_per_lun_limit too early.
For example we export 1 or more NVMe or block devices and would like
to just pass command to them in way where virtio-scsi's hw queue
limits match the physical hardware. Or in some cases we are doing
cgroup based throttling on the host side, and we don't want the guest
to block IO when the host knows we have extra bandwidth.

The patches add a new cmd_per_lun value so drivers can indicate
when to avoid tracking queueing at the device wide level. They
then rely on just the block layer hw queue limits. And the patches
convert virtio-scsi. They also fix some can_queue related issues
discovered while testing/reviewing.


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