On 09/29/2009 05:25 PM, Joe Eykholt wrote:
> Mike Christie wrote:
>> On 09/29/2009 04:39 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
>>> On 09/29/2009 04:21 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
>>>> On 09/29/2009 04:19 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
>>>>> On 09/29/2009 02:03 PM, Joe Eykholt wrote:
>>>>>> Joe Eykholt wrote:
>>>>>>> The kernel no longer has symlinks where libhbalinux expected them.
>>>>>>> I'm not sure which kernel version this was written for.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Don't expect "/sys/class/fc_hosts/<hostx>" to be a symlink.
>>>>>>> Change to look for the symlink "/sys/class/fc_hosts/<hostx>/device".
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Don't expect the strings "/net/" or "/virtual/net/" to be in the
>>>>>>> symlink.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To find the real interface for a vlan, compare the iflink and
>>>>>>> ifindex.
>>>>>>> If they are not the same, look for the interface who's ifindex
>>>>>>> matches
>>>>>>> the iflink of the vlan.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is RFC until someone can test it against older kernels that
>>>>>>> might
>>>>>>> need to be supported. This works on today's fcoe-next kernel with a
>>>>>>> mix of fcoe and fnic. I also tried it with a mix of fcoe and
>>>>>>> qla2xxx (without a vendor library for the latter, it is ignored).
>>>>>> I tried this under RHEL5.4 and it works, although I wasn't able to
>>>>>> test with VLANs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is another somewhat-related issue that I ran across on RHEL5.4.
>>>>>> The device passed to scsi_add_host() is from
>>>>>> netdev->class_dev.dev->parent.
>>>>>> I don't understand why that parent deref is there. For the enic
>>>>>> driver,
>>>>>> the parent is a bridge, so fcoeadm -i shows the bridge device. For
>>>>>> ixgbe,
>>>>>> I assume fcoeadm -i works correctly although I don't have a RHEL
>>>>>> setup with
>>>>>> ixgbe just now. So, is enic doing something wrong or is fcoe wrong?
>>>>>> It seems to me that fcoe is wrong, but the parent deref must be
>>>>>> there for
>>>>>> a reason. Is the device supposed to be a net device instead of a
>>>>>> pci device,
>>>>>> such that the parent is usually the pci device?
>>>>>>
>>>>> scsi_add_host wants the device with dma settings/restrictions, so
>>>>> later
>>>
>>> One correction here. For vports with James's patch we do not have to
>>> pass in the pci device, but I am not sure if the netdev will work
>>> either.
>>>
>>>>> in functions like scsi_alloc_queue/__scsi_alloc_queue it can set the
>>>>> block/queue segment/dma/scatterlist settings with it. Does the netdev
>>>>> device have that? Maybe for upstream it does and for RHEL 5 it did
>>>>> not.
>>>>> I think for RHEL 5.4, there was a difference between what upstream
>>>>> netdev device and what RHEL's netdev device have/are, because of the
>>>> I mean I think (thought at the time) that upstream's netdev device
>>>> pointed to the pci device, but in RHEL 5.4 the netdev->class_dev.dev
>>>
>>> Argh, I guess it looks like the upstream netdev device points to a net
>>> device only. I see the netdev->dev.parent points to the pci device's
>>> device.
>>>
>>> For normal scsi drivers we pass the pci dev to scsi_add_host. When
>>> vports are in use then with JamesS's dev_to_nonscsi_dev patch we can
>>> pass in the device from the vport or scsi_host or whatever, and
>>> dev_to_nonscsi_dev will find the first non scsi object.
>>>
>>> So if the netdev device does not have dma restrictions limits then what
>>> we are passing into scsi_add_host is wrong for the non vport case, or
>>
>> I miswrote that. If the netdev device does not have the dma
>> restrictions then it is wrong for the vport and non vport case since
>> the first non scsi object is going to be the netdevice device, and we
>> want the pci device.
>>
>>> scsi-ml needs to be modified to find the parent with dma restrictions
>>> for fcoe correctly.
>
> So for RHEL 5.x, it sounds like enic is doing the wrong thing.
> netdev->dev->parent should point to the PCI device, but instead
> netdev->dev does, and the parent is the bridge.
>

Actually, I think I messed up on fcoe in RHEL 5.x. It looks like enic 
uses SET_NETDEV_DEV like it should and other drivers do. In RHEL 5 that 
sets the the pci device to netdev->class_dev.dev. For fcoe then I should 
pass scsi_add_host netdev->class_dev.dev.

For upstream, I think for the non vport case fcoe should be passing 
scsi_add_host netdev->dev.parent.
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