On 02/08/2016 03:34 PM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> as promised here is now the second part of my ALUA device handler update.
> This contains a major rework of the ALUA device handler as execution is
> moved onto a workqueue. This has the advantage that we avoid having to
> do multiple calls to the same LUN (as happens frequently when failing
> over a LUN with several paths) and finally retries are handled correctly.
> As some arrays are only capable of handling one STPG at a time I've added
> a blacklist flag which then uses a singlethreaded workqueue, thereby
> effectively synchronize STPG handling.
> Thanks to Bart for this suggestion.
>
> As usual, comments and reviews are welcome.
>
> Changes to v4:
> - use kfree_rcu() as suggested by hch
> - Use 'IS_ERR' instead of 'PTR_ERR' when checking for validity
> of a pointer
> - Simplify pg assignment as suggested by hch
> - Use separate WARN_ON statements a suggested by hch
> - Fixes to avoid I/O stall on failover
>
> Changes to v3:
> - Use scsi_device flag for blacklisting as suggested by hch
> - Add Arrays for synchronous ALUA handling
> - Move synchronize_rcu() into release_port_group()
> - Add remaining reviewed tags
>
> Changes to v2:
> - Use a SCSI blacklist flag instead of a hardware handler parameter
> for switching to synchronous ALUA handling
> - Move scsi_get_device_flags{,_keyed} to scsi_devinfo.h
> - Move flush_delayed_work() into release_port_group()
> - Rename alua_lookup_pg() into alua_find_get_pg()
> - Add __rcu annotations to keep sparse happy
>
> Changes to v1:
> - Include reviews from hch
> - Switch to hardware handler parameter instead of module option
>
> Hannes Reinecke (23):
> scsi_dh_alua: Pass buffer as function argument
> scsi_dh_alua: separate out alua_stpg()
> scsi_dh_alua: Make stpg synchronous
> scsi_dh_alua: call alua_rtpg() if stpg fails
> scsi_dh_alua: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags()
> scsi_dh_alua: allocate RTPG buffer separately
> scsi_dh_alua: Use separate alua_port_group structure
> scsi_dh_alua: use unique device id
> scsi_dh_alua: simplify alua_initialize()
> revert commit a8e5a2d593cb ("[SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: ALUA handler attach
> should succeed while TPG is transitioning")
> scsi_dh_alua: move optimize_stpg evaluation
> scsi_dh_alua: remove 'rel_port' from alua_dh_data structure
> scsi_dh_alua: Use workqueue for RTPG
> scsi_dh_alua: Allow workqueue to run synchronously
> scsi_dh_alua: Add new blacklist flag 'BLIST_SYNC_ALUA'
> scsi_dh_alua: Recheck state on unit attention
> scsi_dh_alua: update all port states
> scsi_dh_alua: Send TEST UNIT READY to poll for transitioning
> scsi_dh: add 'rescan' callback
> scsi: Add 'access_state' attribute
> scsi_dh_alua: use common definitions for ALUA state
> scsi_dh_alua: update 'access_state' field
> scsi_dh_alua: Update version to 2.0
>
> drivers/scsi/device_handler/scsi_dh_alua.c | 988
> ++++++++++++++++++++---------
> drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c | 2 +
> drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 1 +
> drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 12 +-
> drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 49 ++
> include/scsi/scsi_device.h | 2 +
> include/scsi/scsi_devinfo.h | 1 +
> include/scsi/scsi_dh.h | 2 +
> include/scsi/scsi_proto.h | 13 +
> 9 files changed, 763 insertions(+), 307 deletions(-)
>
And for the impatient I've pushed the entire patchset to my kernel
repository at kernel.org:
kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hare/scsi-devel.git alua-2.v5
Cheers,
Hannes
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