On 12/08/2015 01:48 AM, Himanshu Madhani wrote: > From: Alexei Potashnik <[email protected]> > > Until now ack'ing of a new PLOGI has only been delayed if there > was an existing session for the same WWN. Ack was released when > the session deletion completed. > > If there was another WWN session with the same fc_id/loop_id pair > (aka "conflicting session"), PLOGI was still ack'ed immediately. > This potentially caused a problem when old session deletion logged > fc_id/loop_id out of FW after new session has been established. > > Two work-arounds were attempted before: > 1. Dropping PLOGIs until conflicting session goes away. > 2. Detecting initiator being logged out of FW and issuing LOGO > to force re-login. > > This patch introduces proper solution to the problem where PLOGI > is held until either existing session with same WWN or any > conflicting session goes away. Mechanism supports one session holding > two PLOGI acks as well as one PLOGI ack being held by many sessions. > > Signed-off-by: Alexei Potashnik <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Quinn Tran <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <[email protected]> > --- Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
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