Re: standards revisions

2012-10-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 10:31:37AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Regardless of if an virtual backend reports a SPC-3 version (0x05) in > INQUIRY response, an initiator is still allowed to fall back to using > legacy SCSI-2 reservations instead of SPC-3 persistent reservations. I > can thin

Re: [PATCH 0/3] Insert ATA transport objects in SCSI syfs topology.

2012-10-07 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Gwendal Grignou wrote: >> What's the benefit of this? > + To unify ata transport sysfs topology with other scsi transport. My concern is the thrash and breakage to switch the ordering around given the (minor) growing pains injecting an ata_port into the device path

Re: [PATCH, resend] Fix race between starved list processing and device removal

2012-10-07 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 10/07/12 12:47, James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:14 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: Avoid that the sdev reference count can drop to zero before the queue is run by scsi_run_queue(). Also avoid that the sdev reference count can drop to zero in the same function by invoking __blk_r

Re: standards revisions

2012-10-07 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 09:16 +0100, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 23:11 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 21:49 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Currenly all non-pscsi bakcneds report their standards version as > > > SPC 2 via ->get_device_rev. > >

Re: standards revisions

2012-10-07 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 10:51 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 11:11:50PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 21:49 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Currenly all non-pscsi bakcneds report their standards version as > > > SPC 2 via ->get_device_

Re: standards revisions

2012-10-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 11:11:50PM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 21:49 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Currenly all non-pscsi bakcneds report their standards version as > > SPC 2 via ->get_device_rev. > > No, the proper on-the-wire bits to signal SPC-3 compliance

[Bug 47701] When too many disks fall out at the same time, RCU hangs

2012-10-07 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47701 Brad Campbell changed: What|Removed |Added CC||lists2...@fnarfbargle.com --- Comment

Re: [RESEND][PATCH 0/20][SCSI] mpt3sas: Driver submission v01.100.00.00

2012-10-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2012-09-29 at 19:48 +0530, sreekanth.re...@lsi.com wrote: > This is new scsi lld device driver from LSI supporting the SAS 3.0 > standard. > > Here is list of new 12gb host controllers: > > LSI SAS3004 > LSI SAS3008 > LSI SAS3108 > > Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy > Reviewed-by: N

Re: Request for improved commit tracking between fcoe and scsi trees

2012-10-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 20:25 +, Love, Robert W wrote: > On 10/3/2012 12:23 PM, Neil Horman wrote: > > James, Robert- > > I've been doing lots of backports of FCoE code to the RHEL tree these > > last few months, and I've noticed something fairly irritating, and I was > > wondering if you two

Re: Request for improved commit tracking between fcoe and scsi trees

2012-10-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 15:23 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > James, Robert- > I've been doing lots of backports of FCoE code to the RHEL tree these > last few months, and I've noticed something fairly irritating, and I was > wondering if you two could help me out with it (in fact you two are the o

Re: [PATCH, resend] Fix race between starved list processing and device removal

2012-10-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:14 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Avoid that the sdev reference count can drop to zero before > the queue is run by scsi_run_queue(). Also avoid that the sdev > reference count can drop to zero in the same function by invoking > __blk_run_queue(). [...] if (scsi_

Re: standards revisions

2012-10-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 23:11 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 21:49 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Currenly all non-pscsi bakcneds report their standards version as > > SPC 2 via ->get_device_rev. > > No, the proper on-the-wire bits to signal SPC-3 compliance are alr