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Christoph Hellwig
d285203cf6 scsi: add support for a blk-mq based I/O path.
This patch adds support for an alternate I/O path in the scsi midlayer
which uses the blk-mq infrastructure instead of the legacy request code.

Use of blk-mq is fully transparent to drivers, although for now a host
template field is provided to opt out of blk-mq usage in case any unforseen
incompatibilities arise.

In general replacing the legacy request code with blk-mq is a simple and
mostly mechanical transformation.  The biggest exception is the new code
that deals with the fact the I/O submissions in blk-mq must happen from
process context, which slightly complicates the I/O completion handler.
The second biggest differences is that blk-mq is build around the concept
of preallocated requests that also include driver specific data, which
in SCSI context means the scsi_cmnd structure.  This completely avoids
dynamic memory allocations for the fast path through I/O submission.

Due the preallocated requests the MQ code path exclusively uses the
host-wide shared tag allocator instead of a per-LUN one.  This only
affects drivers actually using the block layer provided tag allocator
instead of their own.  Unlike the old path blk-mq always provides a tag,
although drivers don't have to use it.

For now the blk-mq path is disable by defauly and must be enabled using
the "use_blk_mq" module parameter.  Once the remaining work in the block
layer to make blk-mq more suitable for slow devices is complete I hope
to make it the default and eventually even remove the old code path.

Based on the earlier scsi-mq prototype by Nicholas Bellinger.

Thanks to Bart Van Assche and Robert Elliot for testing, benchmarking and
various sugestions and code contributions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Webb Scales <webbnh@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
2014-07-25 17:16:28 -04:00
Nicholas Bellinger
e66ecd505a [SCSI] target: Convert TASK_ATTR to scsi_tcq.h definitions
This patch converts target core and follwing scsi-misc upstream fabric
modules to use include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h includes for SIMPLE, HEAD_OF_QUEUE
and ORDERED SCSI tasks instead of scsi/libsas.h with TASK_ATTR*

*) tcm_loop: Convert tcm_loop_allocate_core_cmd() + tcm_loop_device_reset() to
   scsi_tcq.h
*) tcm_fc: Convert ft_send_cmd() from FCP_PTA_* to scsi_tcq.h

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
2011-05-24 13:03:56 -04:00
Tejun Heo
9cbbdca44a block: remove spurious uses of REQ_HARDBARRIER
REQ_HARDBARRIER is deprecated.  Remove spurious uses in the following
users.  Please note that other than osdblk, all other uses were
already spurious before deprecation.

* osdblk: osdblk_rq_fn() won't receive any request with
  REQ_HARDBARRIER set.  Remove the test for it.

* pktcdvd: use of REQ_HARDBARRIER in pkt_generic_packet() doesn't mean
  anything.  Removed.

* aic7xxx_old: Setting MSG_ORDERED_Q_TAG on REQ_HARDBARRIER is
  spurious.  Removed.

* sas_scsi_host: Setting TASK_ATTR_ORDERED on REQ_HARDBARRIER is
  spurious.  Removed.

* scsi_tcq: The ordered tag path wasn't being used anyway.  Removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-09-10 12:35:36 +02:00
Jens Axboe
3070f69b66 scsi: make sure that scsi_init_shared_tag_map() doesn't overwrite existing map
Right now callers have to check whether scsi_host->bqt is already
set up, it's much cleaner to just have scsi_init_shared_tag_map()
does this check on its own.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-27 19:25:30 +01:00
David C Somayajulu
f583f4924d [PATCH] helper function for retrieving scsi_cmd given host based block layer tag
This was necessitated by the need for a function to get back
to a scsi_cmnd, when an hba the posts its (corresponding) completion
interrupt with a block layer tag as its reference.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-04 19:32:09 +02:00
David Howells
9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.

This patch does the following:

 (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
     support.

 (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
     an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:

     (*) Block I/O tracing.

     (*) Disk partition code.

     (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.

     (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
     	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
     	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.

     (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
     	 drivers.

     (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.

     (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
     	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.

 (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
     linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
     however, still used in places, and so is still available.

 (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
     parts of linux/fs.h.

 (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
     is not enabled.

 (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
     required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:

     (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).

 (*) Makes some /proc changes:

     (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.

     (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
     given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.

 (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.

 (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
     error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).

 (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4aff5e2333 [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts
Right now ->flags is a bit of a mess: some are request types, and
others are just modifiers. Clean this up by splitting it into
->cmd_type and ->cmd_flags. This allows introduction of generic
Linux block message types, useful for sending generic Linux commands
to block devices.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
James Bottomley
deb81d80ba [SCSI] add failure return to scsi_init_shared_tag_map()
And use it in the stex driver.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-09-02 13:57:28 -05:00
James Bottomley
86e33a296c [SCSI] add shared tag map helpers
This patch adds support for sharing tag maps at the host level
(i.e. either every queue [LUN] has its own tag map or there's a single
one for the entire host).  This formulation is primarily intended to
help single issue queue hardware, like the aic7xxx

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-08-31 11:18:03 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00