Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'bsg' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: (25 commits)
bsg: Kconfig updates
bsg: add SCSI transport-level request support
bsg: add bidi support
add a struct request pointer to the request structure
bsg: fix the deadlock on discarding done commands
bsg: fix a blocking read bug
bsg: minor bug fixes
improve bsg device allocation
bind bsg to all SCSI devices
bsg: bind bsg to request_queue instead of gendisk
bsg: add a request_queue argument to scsi_cmd_ioctl()
bsg: simplify __bsg_alloc_command failpath
bsg: add cheasy error checks for sysfs stuff
Add queue resizing support
Replace s32, u32 and u64 with __s32, __u32 and __u64 in bsg.h for userspace
bsg: silence a bogus gcc warning
bsg: style cleanup
bsg: use u32 etc instead of uint32_t
bsg: add SG_IO to SG v4
bsg: replace SG v3 with SG v4
...
Make some offending drivers depend on it and set CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers.
This gets PowerPC allmodconfig and allyesconfig much closer to building.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
bsg uses scsi_cmd_ioctl() for some SCSI/sg ioctl
commands. scsi_cmd_ioctl() gets a request queue from a gendisk
arguement. This prevents bsg being bound to SCSI devices that don't
have a gendisk (like OSD). This adds a request_queue argument to
scsi_cmd_ioctl(). The SCSI/sg ioctl commands doesn't use a gendisk so
it's safe for any SCSI devices to use scsi_cmd_ioctl().
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (166 commits)
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] dc395x: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] ncr53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
[SCSI] ppa: coding police and printk levels
[SCSI] aic7xxx_old: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc
[SCSI] i2o: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc from device.c
[SCSI] remove the dead CYBERSTORMIII_SCSI option
[SCSI] don't build scsi_dma_{map,unmap} for !HAS_DMA
[SCSI] Clean up scsi_add_lun a bit
[SCSI] 53c700: Remove printk, which triggers because of low scsi clock on SNI RMs
[SCSI] sni_53c710: Cleanup
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix underrun/overrun conditions
[SCSI] megaraid_mbox: use mutex instead of semaphore
[SCSI] aacraid: add 51245, 51645 and 52245 adapters to documentation.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: update version to 8.02.00-k1.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: add support for NPIV
[SCSI] stex: use resid for xfer len information
[SCSI] Add Brownie 1200U3P to blacklist
[SCSI] scsi.c: convert to use the data buffer accessors
...
- remove the unnecessary map_single path.
- convert to use the new accessors for the sg lists and the
parameters.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
- remove the unnecessary map_single path.
- convert to use the new accessors for the sg lists and the
parameters.
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> did the for_each_sg cleanup.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jamie Lenehan <lenehan@twibble.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
- remove the unnecessary map_single path.
- convert to use the new accessors for the sg lists and the
parameters.
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> did the for_each_sg cleanup.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
- remove the unnecessary map_single path.
- convert to use the new accessors for the sg lists and the
parameters.
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> did the for_each_sg cleanup.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Add printk levels
Clean up some oddities of formatting
Fix goto labels
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:aic7xxx_slave_alloc() unnecessarily passes
GFP_ATOMIC (along with GFP_KERNEL) to kmalloc() from a context that is not
atomic. Remove the pointless GFP_ATOMIC.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Not converted to the 2.6 kconfig system and no code in the tree.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
With
dma-mapping-prevent-dma-dependent-code-from-linking-on.patch
scsi fails to build on !HAS_DMA architectures:
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x20af6): In function `scsi_dma_map':
: undefined reference to `dma_map_sg'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x20b5c): In function `scsi_dma_unmap':
: undefined reference to `dma_unmap_sg'
I split those functions out into a new file. Builds on s390 and i386.
Move scsi_dma_{map,unmap} into scsi_lib_dma.c which is only build if
HAS_DMA is set.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch tidies up scsi_add_lun a bit. I rewrote the kerneldoc to match
the actual parameters, moved the check for RBC and MMC REPORT_LUN devices
away from the switch(), changed the setup of sdev->type to account for
BLIST_ISROM, moved the check for BLIST_NO_ULD_ATTACH further down in
the function, removed a bogus comment and fixed some whitespace issues.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
remove printk, which triggers because of low scsi clock on SNI RMs
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
- base address is now a physical address; no need to convert it
- remove not needed error printk in module init function
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:55 -0700, David C Somayajulu wrote:
This patch fixes the code handling underrun and overrun conditions.
Also fixed coding style as per Mike Christie's advice.
Signed-off-by: David Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
The Megaraid Mailbox driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Patro, Sumant" <Sumant.Patro@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Following patch bump up the driver version reflecting NPIV addition to
the qla2xxx.
- version changed from 8.01.07-k7 to 8.02.00-k1.
Signed-off-by: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Following patch adds support for NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) to the
qla2xxx.
- supported within switched-fabric topologies only.
- supports up to 63 virtual ports on each physical port.
Signed-off-by: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
The original implementation in stex_ys_commands() is inappropriate.
For xfer len information, we should use resid instead.
Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
The Brownie 1200U3P has the same problem with REPORT LUNS as the
1600U3P. Add it to the blacklist.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
- a couple of prints, they can use the accessors
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
- The saved sg_count was a leftover from the time the driver was doing
dma mapping by himself. But now that scsi-ml is called for the mapping
it is not the drivers responsibility.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Acked-by: G. Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
CONFIG_SCSI_FD_8xx no longer exists.
Apparently it was renamed to CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE, but the Makefile was
not correctly updated.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Sweep registered blkdev when scsi_register_driver has failed.
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c: In function 'lpfc_create_port':
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c:1573: error: 'struct kobject' has no member named 'dentry'
Just remove the if check on this ... lpfc shouldn't be poking around
in kobject structures.
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c: In function 'lpfc_pci_probe_one':
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c:1723: warning: unused variable 'retval'
And remove the unused variable.
Cc: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch uses dma_map_sg with phba->pcidev->dev instead of
scsi_dma_map.
scsi_dma_map doesn't work for NPIV since fc_vport->dev isn't fully
initialized. check_addr() in arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.c leads to
the crash since dev->dma_mask is NULL.
For more details:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118312448030633&w=2
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This is an addendum to:
commit a0b4f78f9a
Author: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
[SCSI] lpfc: convert to use the data buffer accessors
One place was missed in the merge
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Acked-by: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Removes an obsolete method scsi_device_cancel which isn't being used
anywhere in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Priyanka Gupta <priyankag@google.com>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (34 commits)
PCI: Only build PCI syscalls on architectures that want them
PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp "cannot get bridge info" PCI hotplug failure
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: remove hot plug parameter write to PCI host bridge
PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3
PCI: hotplug: pciehp: wait for 1 second after power off slot
PCI: pci_set_power_state(): check for PM capabilities earlier
PCI: cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API
PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi
PCI: pcie: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
PCI: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/pci
PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs
PCI: pci-x-pci-express-read-control-interfaces cleanups
PCI: Fix typo in include/linux/pci.h
PCI: pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines
PCI: pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors
PCI: pci_ids, reorder some entries
PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE
PCI: ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE
PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device->revision
...
Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.
What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.
In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(
Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)
Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.
Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.
This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.
For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As suggested by Andrew, add pci_try_set_mwi(), which does not require
return-value checking.
- add pci_try_set_mwi() without __must_check
- make it return 0 on success, errno if the "try" failed or error
- review callers
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Instead of all drivers reading pci config space to get the revision
ID, they can now use the pci_device->revision member.
This exposes some issues where drivers where reading a word or a dword
for the revision number, and adding useless error-handling around the
read. Some drivers even just read it for no purpose of all.
In devices where the revision ID is being copied over and used in what
appears to be the equivalent of hotpath, I have left the copy code
and the cached copy as not to influence the driver's performance.
Compile tested with make all{yes,mod}config on x86_64 and i386.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and
from documentation. Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel,
but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:28:16 +0200 api wrote:
> Good day,
> When doing make menuconfig one comes across CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD.
> The help file states that this is for scsi disks.NO MENTION IS MADE THAT
> IT IS NEEDE FOR SATA DISKS AS WELL!
> Would have saved me a lot of time if the help was up to date.
> I hope this can be changed so others can make a kernel for sata systems
> quicker.
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Add help info for BLK_DEV_SD referring to its use in
SATA or PATA driver configurations.
Add help text for "ATA" indicating that it probably needs
some SCSI config symbols enabled in order to be useful.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The viosrp_crq timeout field is in seconds.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Support displaying long serial number information. Reuse sysfs handler
internally as helper.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
The Dell PERC2/QC erroneously was listed as having the 31 bit limit
quirk on the interface allocations, removing the reference to repair
this oversight. Also, the 2 quad pci address (family) match catch-all
also retained the 31 bit limit and the 34 SG limit quirks in a paranoid
move. Now, many years later, we find that none of the Adapters that did
trigger with the family match had such quirks; these quirks are all
limited to the 4 quad pci address matches to select legacy adapters
already populated.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch is more like a spelling correction than a fix. It was
discovered that if we had a busy status return from the Adapter for the
SCSI srb command to a physical component, that we returned
DID_NO_CONNECT rather than what one would expect DID_BUS_BUSY.
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
- a4000t.c: Add missing include, needed in some configurations
- bvme6000_scsi.c: Kill bogus opening brace
- zorro7xx.c: Remove MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE, it should be part of another
patch
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Remove redundant defines from the header, replace all occurances in the
code with standard SAM_STAT_ macros. Also fix what seems to be a typo in
testing for (status == H_OVER_UNDER_RUN)...
Signed-off-by: G. Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
When reporting SCSI devices to the SCSI midlayer, use the FCP LUN as
LUN reported to the SCSI layer. With this approach, zfcp does not have
to create unique LUNS, and this code can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Swen Schillig <swen@vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch updates the driver version to 8.2.1
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This patch is a reworked version of the data buffer accessors patch
so that it applies on the NPIV sources.
The original patch was developed and submitted by Fujita Tomonori:
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=117896446832171&w=2
- remove the unnecessary map_single path.
- convert to use the new accessors for the sg lists and the
parameters.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Following the NPIV support, the following changes have been accumulated
in the testing and qualification of the driver:
- Fix affinity of ELS ring to slow/deferred event processing
- Fix Ring attention masks
- Defer dev_loss_tmo timeout handling to worker thread
- Consolidate link down error classification for better error checking
- Remove unused/deprecated nlp_initiator_tmr timer
- Fix for async scan - move adapter init code back into pci_probe_one
context. Fix async scan interfaces.
- Expand validation of ability to create vports
- Extract VPI resource cnt from firmware
- Tuning of Login/Reject policies to better deal with overwhelmned targets
- Misc ELS and discovery fixes
- Export the npiv_enable attribute to sysfs
- Mailbox handling fix
- Add debugfs support
- A few other small misc fixes:
- wrong return values, double-frees, bad locking
- Added adapter failure heartbeat
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
NPIV support is added to the driver. It utilizes the interfaces of
the fc transport for the creation and deletion of vports. Within the
driver, a new Scsi_Host is created for each NPIV instance, and is
paired with a new instance of a FC port. This allows N FC Port
elements to share a single Adapter.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
NPIV support is only available via new adapter interface extensions,
termed SLI-3. This interface changes some of the basic behaviors such
as command and response ring element sizes and data structures, as
well as a change in buffer posting. Note: the new firmware extensions
are found only on our mid-range and enterprise 4Gig adapters - so NPIV
support is available only on these newer adapters. The latest firmware
can be downloaded from the Emulex support page.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>