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

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

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 with

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 positively to the state

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 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

2014-12-03 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 core which I am including

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 g...@wind.enjellic.com wrote: 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

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

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

2014-05-21 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
with an armed thermonuclear weapon and a can opener with orders to disarm it. -- Dr. Greg Wettstein Resurrection -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-scsi in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

New release of SCST/Qlogic target interface driver.

2014-04-02 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
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. Enjellic Systems Development, LLC. 4206 N. 19th Ave

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

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 g...@wind.enjellic.com: Hi, hope the week is going well

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

2014-02-24 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
From: Dr. Greg Wettstein g...@enjellic.com 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

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