Qlogic driver fix in backports induces target code regression.

2017-06-23 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
Hi, I hope the week is ending well for everyone. We just tracked this issue down and I wanted to bring it to the attention of Willy and Ben in particular, since it is has a high probability of negatively affecting storage consumers of the LTS kernel series. The following fix from the mainline ker

Re: [PATCH 08/22] qla2xxx: Refactore target code to remove symbol dependency

2017-01-17 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Dec 16, 12:17am, Christoph Hellwig wrote: } Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/22] qla2xxx: Refactore target code to remove symbol Good morning, I hope the week is going well for everyone. Really late to this thread but am just getting caught d up after the holidays and putting out fires. > On Thu, Dec 1

Re: [Scst-devel] scst qla2xxx.ko VS kernel qla2xxx.ko

2015-03-20 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Mar 13, 4:18am, Suresh Babu Kandukuru wrote: } Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] scst qla2xxx.ko VS kernel qla2xxx.ko Hi, I hope the week is closing out well for everyone. > Thanks Bart . We have tested with 2.2.0 and 3.0.1 > (scst-svn-6135-branches-3.0.x ) ., loaded all the scst ko files > along wi

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target drivers

2015-03-05 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Mar 1, 10:59pm, "Nicholas A. Bellinger" wrote: } Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target driv Hi, I hope the week is progressing well for everyone. > On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 12:59 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > On 02/27/15 22:58, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > >

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target drivers

2015-02-12 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Feb 9, 2:16pm, Bart Van Assche wrote: } Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target driv > On 02/03/15 11:06, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote: > > It takes a six line patch to the in-kernel Qlogic target driver for > > SCST to leverage and contribute positive

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target drivers

2015-02-03 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Jan 19, 1:21am, Christoph Hellwig wrote: } Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Unifying the LIO and SCST target driv Hi, I hope the week is going well for everyone. I'm a bit behind on e-mail and getting ready for travel but wanted to reply back to this thread because of our involvement and

Re: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question

2014-12-04 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Dec 3, 11:38pm, Duane Grigsby wrote: } Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question > Hi Greg, Hi Duane, hope your day is starting out well. > I looked at your logs and also reviewed the PLOGI handling in > Trunk-SCST.15. We found a issue with PLOGI/PRLI cleanup handling that I'm

Re: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question

2014-12-03 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Dec 3, 8:59pm, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: } Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question > Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote on 12/03/2014 12:46 PM: > > Secondly, Vlad, we have been running additional testing for the last > > two days and we have logs from the SCST

Re: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question

2014-12-03 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Nov 30, 4:00pm, Duane Grigsby wrote: } Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question Hi, Ihope the week is going well for everyone. I've significantly cut information out of this in order to simplify the mail. Duane, I had forwarded logs from previous testing to you on Monday and

Re: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question

2014-12-01 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
modalities is not something which is entertained lightly. > On 11/26/14, 10:10 AM, "Dr. Greg Wettstein" wrote: > > >On Nov 19, 11:54am, Marc Smith wrote: > >} Subject: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question > > > >> Hi, > > > >Hi, I hope the d

Re: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question

2014-11-26 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Nov 19, 11:54am, Marc Smith wrote: } Subject: [Scst-devel] New qla2x00tgt Driver Question > Hi, Hi, I hope the day continues to go well for everyone. It is -15C here with a -26C windchill so Izzy, my golden retriever and I, are answering e-mails rather then putting up outside Christmas decora

Re: [Scst-devel] Qlogic's 16G FC/FCoE HBA support

2014-05-21 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
ctiveness of the advisory committee? I think they are destined to accomplish about the same thing as what you would get from locking 9 chimpanzees in a room with an armed thermonuclear weapon and a can opener with orders to disarm it." -- Dr. Greg Wetts

Re: [Scst-devel] OSS target - VMware SCSI reservation bug conformity.

2014-04-04 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Apr 3, 1:21pm, "Nicholas A. Bellinger" wrote: } Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] OSS target - VMware SCSI reservation bug conform Hi Nicholas, thanks for weighing in on this issue. > > I had the following reasons for raising the issue: > > > > 1.) Does anyone in the open-source storage eco-syst

New release of SCST/Qlogic target interface driver.

2014-04-02 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
since its the only warm spot so I'm going to heat up a couple of pieces of pizza and wrap up in a blanket in front of the stove. Best wishes to everyone in Linux storage land for a similarily enjoyable evening/weekend. Greg and Izzy As always, Dr. Greg Wettstein, Ph.D. E

Re: [Scst-devel] OSS target - VMware SCSI reservation bug conformity.

2014-04-02 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Mar 28, 8:53pm, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: } Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] OSS target - VMware SCSI reservation bug conform > Dr. Greg Wettstein, on 03/27/2014 11:21 AM wrote: > > Hi, hope the week is going well for everyone. > > > > There appears to be evidence that VMw

Re: [Scst-devel] OSS target - VMware SCSI reservation bug conformity.

2014-03-27 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Mar 27, 9:22pm, Tommy Apel wrote: } Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] OSS target - VMware SCSI reservation bug conform Good morning, hope the end of the week is going well for everyone. > 2014-03-27 19:21 GMT+01:00 Dr. Greg Wettstein : > > Hi, hope the week is going well for everyone. >

OSS target - VMware SCSI reservation bug conformity.

2014-03-27 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
Hi, hope the week is going well for everyone. There appears to be evidence that VMware has an issue with exact SCSI standards compliance when it comes to handling corner cases with SCSI reservation requests. It appears as if Dell is pushing firmware hot fixes for the EqualLogic controllers to wor

[PATCH]: qla2xxx: Fix kernel panic on selective retransmission request.

2014-02-24 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
From: Dr. Greg Wettstein qla2xxx: Fix kernel panic on selective retransmission request. A selective retransmission request (SRR) is a fibre-channel protocol control request which provides support for requesting retransmission of a data sequence in response to an issue such as frame loss or

Re: [Scst-devel] [SPF:fail] Re: FC initiator performance tanks once target mode is enabled

2013-12-26 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Dec 23, 12:20pm, "Nicholas A. Bellinger" wrote: } Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] [SPF:fail] Re: FC initiator performance tanks on Hi, hope the week is going well for everyone. At the risk of wading into this controversy any further I thought it might be helpful to clarify some issues given the dyna