[PATCH v2 07/15] qla2xxx: move fields from qla_hw_data to qla_qpair

From: Quinn Tran - Move chip_reset, enable_class_2 fields from qla_hw_data to qla_qpair to reduce cache thrash for target MQ. - Optimizations to reduce unnecessary memory load for good path io. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu

[PATCH v2 03/15] qla2xxx: Enable Target Multi Queue

From: Quinn Tran Enable Multi Queue for Target mode. At Initiator LUN scan time, each LUN is assign to a QPair. Each QPair is affinitize to certain CPU. When new cmd arrives from the wire, the lunid is used to search for qpair. The qpair's affinitized cpuid will be used to

[PATCH v2 11/15] qla2xxx: Remove unused tgt_enable_64bit_addr flag

From: Quinn Tran By default this flag is forced to true. Remove this flag and unneccessary check for this flag. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani --- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c | 44

[PATCH v2 14/15] qla2xxx: Include Exchange offload/Extended Login into FW dump

From: Quinn Tran Add missing memory dump of Exchange Offload and Extended login into FW dump. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani --- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dbg.c | 49

[PATCH v2 06/15] qla2xxx: Add fw_started flags to qpair

From: Quinn Tran Add fw_started flag to qpair to reduce cache thrash. This reduce access to qla_hw_data structure by each qpair. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani ---

[PATCH v2 04/15] qla2xxx: Fix mailbox failure while deleting Queue pairs

From: Sawan Chandak In target mode driver, queue pairs are not created during driver load time, instead they are created at the configuration time after chip reset. If a user tries to load/unload driver after queue pairs are created, then there would be mailbox failure,

[PATCH v2 08/15] qla2xxx: use shadow register for ISP27XX

From: Quinn Tran For ISP27XX, use shadow register to read FW provided REQQ's consumer index. The shadow register is dma'ed by firmware. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani ---

[PATCH v2 05/15] qla2xxx: Add debug knob for user control workload

From: Quinn Tran For Target mode, user can control the work load by placing qla2xxx's irq vector on certain CPU via the smp_affinity knob. This patch allows user to control the number of QPair's irq to be active. The irqs are allocated at driver load time until unload. The

[PATCH v2 10/15] qla2xxx: Add debug logging routine for qpair

From: Quinn Tran For target main path io routines that uses qpair, create new logging & debugging routines to use qpair instead of reaching for scsi_qla_host to reduce cache thrash. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani

[PATCH v2 15/15] qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.01.00.00-k

Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali --- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_version.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_version.h

[PATCH v2 13/15] qla2xxx: Move target stat counters from vha to qpair.

From: Quinn Tran Move counters to qpair to reduce cache miss. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani --- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_def.h | 27 +++-- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_dfs.c

[PATCH v2 09/15] qla2xxx: Add function call to qpair for door bell

From: Quinn Tran Add call back to door bell for qpair. This help reduce access to qla_hw_data structure, in order to reduce cach thrash. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani ---

[PATCH v2 02/15] qla2xxx: Preparation for Target MQ.

From: Quinn Tran In Current code, Req Q 0, RespQ 0 & hardware_lock are the main resources for sending and process completion of Target IO. These resources are now referenced behind a new qpair/"struct qla_qpair base_qpair". Main path IO handle will access those resources

[PATCH v2 12/15] qla2xxx: Remove datasegs_per_cmd and datasegs_per_cont field

From: Quinn Tran These fields only hold one set of value. Replace it with macros to reduce cache thrash. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani --- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c | 12

[PATCH v2 00/15] qla2xxx: Add Target Multiqueue support

Hi Martin, Nic, This patch series adds support for multiqueue for qla2xxx target mode driver. This series depends on the seris applied to Martin's scsi/for-next branch (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/log/?h=for-next) I've also added followig patch ("qla2xxx:

[PATCH v2 01/15] qla2xxx: Combine Active command arrays.

From: Quinn Tran Merge active/outstanding cmd arrays from target side and initiator side together in prepration for Target Multi Queue support. Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani ---

[PATCH v2] storvsc: use default I/O timeout handler for FC devices

From: Long Li FC disks issue I/O directly to the host storage port driver, this is diffirent to VHD disks where I/O is virtualized and timeout is handled by the host VSP (Virtualization Service Provider). FC disks are usually setup in a multipath system, and they don't

RE: [PATCH] scsi: aacraid: fix leak of data from stack back to userspace

> -Original Message- > From: Colin King [mailto:colin.k...@canonical.com] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2017 8:56 AM > To: Raghava Aditya Renukunta ; > dl-esc-Aacraid Linux Driver ; James E . J . Bottomley > ;

RE: [Possible Phish Fraud][PATCH] storvsc: use default I/O timeout handler for FC devices

> -Original Message- > From: Bart Van Assche [mailto:bart.vanass...@sandisk.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 8:38 AM > To: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; KY Srinivasan ; > martin.peter...@oracle.com; linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Stephen Hemminger >

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Enable iSCSI offload drivers to use information from iface.

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Chris Leech wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 12:07:10PM -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote: >>> This patchset enables iSCSI offload drivers to have access to the iface >>>

Re: [Possible Phish Fraud][PATCH] storvsc: use default I/O timeout handler for FC devices

On Mon, 2017-06-12 at 17:23 -0700, Long Li wrote: > From: Long Li > > FC disks are usually setup in a multipath system, and they don't want to > unconditionaly reset I/O on timeout. I/O timeout is detected by multipath > as a good time to failover and recover. > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Broadcom (Emulex) FC Target driver - efct

James, > To start this effort, I'd like a bcmlpfc directory to be made within > the drivers staging tree. The directory would be populated with the > efct driver and a copy of the existing lpfc driver. Work can then > commence on refactoring lpfc and creating the libraries and > integrating the

Re: [PATCH 6/6] sd: add support for TCG OPAL self encrypting disks

Christoph, >> But as we already set no_report_opcodes for all usb-storage and >> quirked uas devices I think the worst offenders are already covered >> anyway. > > Martin, how do we want to move ahead on this patch? I was suggesting the VPD because that may be easier for the SAS HBA vendors to

Re: [PATCH 20/22] scsi: hisi_sas: Add v3 code to support ECC and AXI bus fatal error

On 17/05/2017 13:38, John Garry wrote: On 17/05/2017 13:27, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:49 PM, John Garry wrote: > From: Xiang Chen > > For ECC 1bit error, logic can recover it, so we only print a warning. > For ECC

RE: Application stops due to ext4 filesytsem IO error

Gentle ping. I have opened kernel BZ for this. Here is the BZ link- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196057 Thanks, Sumit >-Original Message- >From: Sumit Saxena [mailto:sumit.sax...@broadcom.com] >Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 9:05 PM >To: 'Jens Axboe' >Cc:

[PATCH][V2][target-devel-next] tcmu: make array tcmu_attrib_attrs static const

From: Colin Ian King The array tcmu_attrib_attrs does not need to be in global scope, so make it static. Cleans up sparse warning: "symbol 'tcmu_attrib_attrs' was not declared. Should it be static?" Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King ---

[PATCH][target-devel-next] tcmu: make array tcmu_attrib_attrs static const

From: Colin Ian King The guid intel_dsm_guid does not need to be in global scope, so make it static. Cleans up sparse warning: "symbol 'tcmu_attrib_attrs' was not declared. Should it be static?" Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King ---

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Broadcom (Emulex) FC Target driver - efct

On 06/13/2017 01:08 AM, James Smart wrote: > Here's what I'd like to propose for a direction: > 1) Create an initiator driver and a target driver. For now, initiator > would support both SCSI and NVME initiator. Target would support SCSI > and NVME target. > 2) SLI3 support would be contained

Re: [PATCH] storvsc: use default I/O timeout handler for FC devices

On 06/13/2017 02:23 AM, Long Li wrote: > From: Long Li > > FC disks are usually setup in a multipath system, and they don't want to > unconditionaly reset I/O on timeout. I/O timeout is detected by multipath > as a good time to failover and recover. > > Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH 6/6] sd: add support for TCG OPAL self encrypting disks

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:58:02AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 08:48:00PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > For WRITE SAME, scsi_report_opcode() is gated not only by > > sdev->no_report_opcodes but by sdev->no_write_same. > > > > I'm concerned about firing off

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: Broadcom (Emulex) FC Target driver - efct

Hi James, I like the plan except for one bit: The staging tree will be a major pain due to the rules for applying to it and all the whitespace cleanup junk you'll get. I would storngly recommend to you to do this with a non-mainline tree instead. I'd be happy to help you maintaining it if you