The last functionality of the target processing thread is offloading possibly
long running task management requests from the submitter context. To keep
TMR semantics the same we need a single threaded ordered queue, which can
be provided by a per-device workqueue with the right flags.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Since "target: Drop se_device TCQ queue_depth usage from I/O path" we always
submit all commands (or back then, tasks) from __transport_execute_tasks.
That means the the execute list has lots its purpose, as we can simply
submit the commands that are restarted in transport_complete_task_attr
directly while we walk the list. In fact doing so also solves a race
in the way it currently walks to delayed_cmd_list as well.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Now that tasks are gone we are guaranteed to only get a single completion
per command, and thus don't need this counter.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Now that tasks are gone we are guaranteed to only get a single completion
per command, and thus don't need this counter.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
We can use struct se_cmd for everything it did. Make sure to pass the S/G
list and data direction to the execution function to ease adding back BIDI
support later on.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Now that we only have a single task per command we can use a direct pointer
to it instead of list.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch adds initial support for TMR_ABORT_TASK ops for se_cmd
descriptors using se_sess->sess_cmd_list and se_cmd->cmd_kref counting.
It will perform an explict abort for all outstanding se_cmd ops based
upon tmr->ref_task_tag that have not been set CMD_T_COMPLETE.
It will cancel se_cmd->work and wait for backing I/O to complete before
attempting to send SAM_STAT_TASK_ABORTED and perform
target_put_sess_cmd() to release the referenced descriptor.
It also adds a CMD_T_ABORTED check into transport_complete_task() to
catch the completion from backend I/O that has been aborted, and
updates transport_wait_for_tasks() to allow CMD_T_ABORTED usage with
core_tmr_abort_task() context.
Reported-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Change the test for if a cmd is a tmr request to checking if
SCF_SCSI_TMR_CDB (a new flag) is set in cmd->se_cmd_flags.
Also remove se_tmr_req_cache usage in favor of kzalloc usage,
and make core_tmr_alloc_req() return int + setup se_cmd->se_tmr_req
directly and fix up various fabric module usages
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Replace various atomic_ts used as flags in struct se_cmd with a single
transport_state bitmap that requires t_state_lock to be held for modifications.
In the target core that assumption generally is true, but some recently added
code in the SRP target had to grow new lock calls. I can't say I like the way
how it messes with the command state directly, but let's leave that for later.
(Re-add missing ib_srpt.c changes that nab dropped..)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
- rename to target_check_cdb_and_preempt
- use non-safe list_for_each_entry
- move common check into callee (simplifying callers)
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
There is no need to make task_state_active an atomic_t given that it is
always set under the execute_task_lock so we can make it a simple bool.
Also rename it to t_state_active to be closer to the list it guards,
and make sure all checks before the list addion/removal actually happen
under execute_task_lock.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This reorganized the headers under include/target into:
- target_core_base.h stays as is with all target-wide data stuctures and defines
- target_core_backend.h contains the whole interface to I/O backends
- target_core_fabric.h contains the whole interface to fabric modules
Except for those only the various configfs macro headers stay around.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Create a new headers, drivers/target/target_core_internal.h that is supposed
to hold all target_core-internal prototypes. Move all non-exported includes
from include/target to it, and merge the smaller prototype-only includes
inside drivers/target into it as well. Mark functions that were found to
not be called outside their implementation file static.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch removes legacy usage of PYX_TRANSPORT_* return codes in a number
of locations and addresses cases where transport_generic_request_failure()
was returning the incorrect sense upon CHECK_CONDITION status after the
v3.1 converson to use errno return codes.
This includes the conversion of transport_generic_request_failure() to
process cmd->scsi_sense_reason and handle extra TCM_RESERVATION_CONFLICT
before calling transport_send_check_condition_and_sense() to queue up
response status. It also drops PYX_TRANSPORT_OUT_OF_MEMORY_RESOURCES legacy
usgae, and returns TCM_LOGICAL_UNIT_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE w/ a response
for these cases.
transport_generic_allocate_tasks(), transport_generic_new_cmd(), backend
SCF_SCSI_DATA_SG_IO_CDB ->do_task(), and emulated ->execute_task() have
all been updated to set se_cmd->scsi_sense_reason and return errno codes
universally upon failure. This includes cmd->scsi_sense_reason assignment
in target_core_alua.c, target_core_pr.c and target_core_cdb.c emulation code.
Finally it updates fabric modules to remove the legacy usage, and for
TFO->new_cmd_map() callers forwards return values outside of fabric code.
iscsi-target has also been updated to remove a handful of special cases
related to the cleanup and signaling QUEUE_FULL handling w/ ft_write_pending()
(v2: Drop extra SCF_SCSI_CDB_EXCEPTION check during failure from
transport_generic_new_cmd, and re-add missing task->task_error_status
assignment in transport_complete_task)
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
This patch drops TRANSPORT_FREE_CMD_INTR usage from target core, which
includes the removal of transport_generic_free_cmd_intr() symbol,
TRANSPORT_FREE_CMD_INTR usage in transport_processing_thread(), and
special case LUN_RESET handling to skip TRANSPORT_FREE_CMD_INTR processing
in core_tmr_drain_cmd_list(). We now expect that fabric modules will
use an internal workqueue to provide process context when releasing
se_cmd descriptor resources via transport_generic_free_cmd().
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Madhuranath Iyengar <mni@risingtidesystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
After the list_del() in core_tmr_drain_tmr_list(),
core_tmr_release_req() would list_del() the same object again.
Call graph:
core_tmr_drain_tmr_list
transport_cmd_finish_abort_tmr
transport_generic_remove
transport_free_se_cmd
core_tmr_release_req
So use list_del_init(), as list_del() of an initialized list_head is
safe and essentially a nop. In the CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST case, list_del()
actually poisons the list_head, but that is fine as we free the object
directly afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
This patch adds a handful minor cleanups to core_tmr_drain_tmr_list() that
remove an unnecessary NULL check, use list_for_each_entry_safe() instead of
list_entry(), and makes the drain_tmr_list walk use *tmr_p instead of
directly referencing the passed *tmr function parameter.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Reviewed-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch fixes another bug from LUN_RESET re-org fallout in
core_tmr_drain_tmr_list() that was adding the wrong se_tmr_req
into the local drain_tmr_list to be walked + released.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Reviewed-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch fixes a bug in core_tmr_drain_tmr_list() where drain_tmr_list
was using the wrong se_tmr_req for cmd assignment due to a typo during the
LUN_RESET re-org. This was resulting in general protection faults while
using the leftover bogus *tmr_p pointer from list_for_each_entry_safe().
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Instead of abusing the target processing thread for offloading I/O
completion in the backends to user context add a new workqueue. This means
completions can be processed as fast as available CPU time allows it,
including in parallel with other completions and more importantly I/O
submission or QUEUE FULL retries. This should give much better performance
especially on loaded systems.
As a fallout we can merge all the completed states into a single
one.
On the downside this change complicates lun reset handling a bit by
requiring us to cancel a work item only for those states that have it
initialized. The alternative would be to either always initialize the work
item to a dummy handler, or always use the same handler and do a switch on
the state. The long term solution will be a flag that says that the command
has an initialized work item, but that's only going to be useful once we
have more users.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
We never check for this state, and it makes testing for a completed
state much harder given that it overrides the existing state.
Also remove the unused deferred_t_state which is related to it.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This is a squashed version of the following unnecessary se_task structure
member removal patches:
target: remove the task_execute_queue field in se_task
Instead of using a separate flag we can simply do list_emptry checks
on t_execute_list if we make sure to always use list_del_init to remove
a task from the list. Also factor some duplicate code into a new
__transport_remove_task_from_execute_queue helper.
target: remove the read-only task_no field in se_task
The task_no field never was initialized and only used in debug printks,
so kill it.
target: remove the task_padded_sg field in se_task
This field is only check in one place and not actually needed there.
Rationale:
- transport_do_task_sg_chain asserts that we have task_sg_chaining
set early on
- we only make use of the sg_prev_nents field we calculate based on it
if there is another sg list that gets chained onto this one, which
never happens for the last (or only) task.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Replace various atomic_t variables that were mostly under t_state_lock
with new flags in task_flags. Note that the execution error path
didn't take t_state_lock before, so add it there.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch merges transport_cmd_finish_abort_tmr() logic into a single
transport_cmd_finish_abort() function by adding a cmd->se_tmr_req check
around transport_lun_remove_cmd(), and updates the single caller within
core_tmr_drain_tmr_list().
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Testing in_interrupt() to know when sleeping is allowed is not really
reliable (since eg it won't be true if the caller is holding a spinlock).
Instead have the caller tell core_tmr_alloc_req() what GFP_xxx to use;
every caller except tcm_qla2xxx can use GFP_KERNEL.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch contains a bugfix for TMR LUN_RESET related to TRANSPORT_FREE_CMD_INTR
operation, where core_tmr_drain_cmd_list() will now skip processing for this
case to prevent an ABORT_TASK status from being returned for descriptors that
are already queued up to be released by processing thread context.
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
This patch is a re-orginzation of core_tmr_lun_reset() logic to properly
scan the active tmr_list, dev->state_task_list and qobj->qobj_list w/ the
relivent locks held, and performing a list_move_tail onto seperate local
scope lists before performing the full drain.
This involves breaking out the code into three seperate list specific
functions: core_tmr_drain_tmr_list(), core_tmr_drain_task_list() and
core_tmr_drain_cmd_list().
(nab: Include target: Remove non-active tasks from execute list during
LUN_RESET patch to address original breakage)
Reported-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
This patch addresses a bug with the lio-core-2.6.git conversion of
transport_add_cmd_to_queue() to use a single embedded list_head, instead
of individual struct se_queue_req allocations allowing a single se_cmd to
be added to the queue mulitple times. This was changed in the following:
commit 2a9e4d5ca5d99f4c600578d6285d45142e7e5208
Author: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Apr 26 17:45:51 2011 -0700
target: Embed qr in struct se_cmd
The problem is that some target code still assumes performing multiple
adds is allowed via transport_add_cmd_to_queue(), which ends up causing
list corruption in qobj->qobj_list code. This patch addresses this
by removing an existing struct se_cmd from the list before the add, and
removes an unnecessary list walk in transport_remove_cmd_from_queue()
It also changes cmd->t_transport_queue_active to use explict sets intead
of increment/decrement to prevent confusion during exception path handling.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
It was pointed out by 'make versioncheck' that some includes of
linux/version.h are not needed in drivers/target/.
This patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch contains the squashed version of forth round series cleanups
from Andy and Christoph following the post heavy lifting in the preceeding:
'Eliminate usage of struct se_mem' and 'Make all control CDBs scatter-gather'
changes. This also includes a conversion of target core and the v3.0
mainline fabric modules (loopback and tcm_fc) to use pr_debug and the
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG infrastructure!
These have been squashed into this third and final round for v3.1.
target: Remove ifdeffed code in t_g_process_write
target: Remove direct ramdisk code
target: Rename task_sg_num to task_sg_nents
target: Remove custom debug macros for pr_debug. Use pr_err().
target: Remove custom debug macros in mainline fabrics
target: Set WSNZ=1 in block limits VPD. Abort if WRITE_SAME sectors = 0
target: Remove transport do_se_mem_map callback
target: Further simplify transport_free_pages
target: Redo task allocation return value handling
target: Remove extra parentheses
target: change alloc_task call to take *cdb, not *cmd
(nab: Fix bogus struct file assignments in fd_do_readv and fd_do_writev)
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
transport_lookup_tmr_lun() can be called from interrupt context and
therefore needs to use IRQ-safe spinlock functions. Fix this up, and
to make the locking work, convert the other uses of se_tmr_lock to be
IRQ-disabling.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch contains a squashed version of third round series cleanups,
improvements ,and simplfications from Andy and Christoph ahead of the
heavy lifting between round 3 -> 4 for the target core SGL conversion.
This include cleanups to the main target I/O path and other miscellaneous
updates.
target: Replace custom sg<->buf functions with lib funcs
target: Simplify sector limiting code
target: get_cdb should never return NULL
target: Simplify transport_memcpy_se_mem_read_contig
target: Use assignment rather than increment for t_task_cdbs
target: Don't pass dma_size to generic_get_mem
target: Pass sg with type scatterlist in transport_map_sg_to_mem
target: Move task_sg_num next to task_sg in struct se_task
target: inline struct se_transport_task into struct se_cmd
target: Change name & semantics of transport_get_sectors()
target: Remove unused members of se_cmd
target: Rename se_cmd.t_task_cdbs to t_task_list_num
target: Fix some spelling
target: Remove unused var from transport_generic_do_tmr
target: map_sg_to_mem: return sg_count in return value
target/pscsi: Use min_t for sector limits
target/pscsi: Unused param for pscsi_get_bio()
target: Rename get_cdb_count to allocate_tasks
target: Make transport_generic_new_cmd() available for iscsi-target
target: Remove fabric callback to allocate iovecs
target: Fix transport_generic_new_cmd WRITE comment
(hch: Use __GFP_ZERO usage for alloc_pages() usage)
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch contains the squashed version of second round of target core
cleanups and simplifications and Andy and Co. It also contains a handful
of fixes to address bugs the original series and other minor cleanups.
Here is the condensed shortlog:
target: Remove unneeded casts to void*
target: Rename get_lun_for_{cmd,tmr} to lookup_{cmd,tmr}_lun
target: Make t_task a member of se_cmd, not a pointer
target: Handle functions returning "-2"
target: Use cmd->se_dev over cmd->se_lun->lun_se_dev
target: Embed qr in struct se_cmd
target: Replace embedded struct se_queue_req with a list_head
target: Rename list_heads that are nodes in struct se_cmd to "*_node"
target: Fold transport_device_setup_cmd() into lookup_{tmr,cmd}_lun()
target: Make t_mem_list and t_mem_list_bidi members of t_task
target: Add comment & cleanup transport_map_sg_to_mem()
target: Remove unneeded checks in transport_free_pages()
(Roland: Fix se_queue_req removal leftovers OOPs)
(nab: Fix transport_lookup_tmr_lun failure case)
(nab: Fix list_empty(&cmd->t_task.t_mem_bidi_list) inversion bugs)
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch contains the squashed version of a number of cleanups and
minor fixes from Andy's initial series (round 1) for target core this
past spring. The condensed log looks like:
target: use errno values instead of returning -1 for everything
target: Rename transport_calc_sg_num to transport_init_task_sg
target: Fix leak in error path in transport_init_task_sg
target/pscsi: Remove pscsi_get_sh() usage
target: Make two runtime checks into WARN_ONs
target: Remove hba queue depth and convert to spin_lock_irq usage
target: dev->dev_status_queue_obj is unused
target: Make struct se_queue_req.cmd type struct se_cmd *
target: Remove __transport_get_qr_from_queue()
target: Rename se_dev->g_se_dev_list to se_dev_node
target: Remove struct se_global
target: Simplify scsi mib index table code
target: Make dev_queue_obj a member of se_device instead of a pointer
target: remove extraneous returns at end of void functions
target: Ensure transport_dump_vpd_ident_type returns null-terminated str
target: Function pointers don't need to use '&' to be assigned
target: Fix comment in __transport_execute_tasks()
target: Misc style cleanups
target: rename struct pr_reservation_template to pr_reservation
target: Remove #defines that just perform indirection
target: Inline transport_get_task_from_execute_queue()
target: Minor header comment fixes
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch fixes two bugs wrt to the interrupt context usage of target
core with HW target mode drivers. It first converts the usage of struct
se_device->stats_lock in transport_get_lun_for_cmd() and core_tmr_lun_reset()
to properly use spin_lock_irq() to address an BUG with CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SUPPORT=y
enabled.
This patch also adds a 'in_interrupt()' check to allow GFP_ATOMIC usage from
core_tmr_alloc_req() to fix a 'sleeping in interrupt context' BUG with HW
target fabrics that require this logic to function.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
This patch addresses two outstanding bugs related to
T_TASK(cmd)->t_transport_aborted handling during TMR LUN_RESET and
active I/O shutdown.
This first involves adding two explict t_transport_aborted=1
assignments in core_tmr_lun_reset() in order to signal the task has
been aborted, and updating transport_generic_wait_for_tasks() to skip
sleeping when t_transport_aborted=1 has been set. This fixes an issue
where transport_generic_wait_for_tasks() would end up sleeping
indefinately when called from fabric module context while TMR
LUN_RESET was happening with long outstanding backend struct se_task
not yet being completed.
The second adds a missing call to
transport_remove_task_from_execute_queue() when
task->task_execute_queue=1 is set in order to fix an OOPs when
task->t_execute_list has not been dropped. It also fixes the same
case in transport_processing_shutdown() to prevent the issue from
happening during active I/O struct se_device shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
LIO target is a full featured in-kernel target framework with the
following feature set:
High-performance, non-blocking, multithreaded architecture with SIMD
support.
Advanced SCSI feature set:
* Persistent Reservations (PRs)
* Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA)
* Protocol and intra-nexus multiplexing, load-balancing and failover (MC/S)
* Full Error Recovery (ERL=0,1,2)
* Active/active task migration and session continuation (ERL=2)
* Thin LUN provisioning (UNMAP and WRITE_SAMExx)
Multiprotocol target plugins
Storage media independence:
* Virtualization of all storage media; transparent mapping of IO to LUNs
* No hard limits on number of LUNs per Target; maximum LUN size ~750 TB
* Backstores: SATA, SAS, SCSI, BluRay, DVD, FLASH, USB, ramdisk, etc.
Standards compliance:
* Full compliance with IETF (RFC 3720)
* Full implementation of SPC-4 PRs and ALUA
Significant code cleanups done by Christoph Hellwig.
[jejb: fix up for new block bdev exclusive interface. Minor fixes from
Randy Dunlap and Dan Carpenter.]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
