At queue creation, the transport allocates a local job struct (struct nvmet_fc_fcp_iod) for each possible element of the queue. When a new CMD is received from the wire, a jobs struct is allocated from the queue and then used for the duration of the command. The job struct contains buffer space for the wire command iu. Thus, upon allocation of the job struct, the cmd iu buffer is copied to the job struct and the LLDD may immediately free/reuse the CMD IU buffer passed in the call.
However, in some circumstances, due to the packetized nature of FC and the api of the FC LLDD which may issue a hw command to send the wire response, but the LLDD may not get the hw completion for the command and upcall the nvmet_fc layer before a new command may be asynchronously received on the wire. In other words, its possible for the initiator to get the response from the wire, thus believe a command slot free, and send a new command iu. The new command iu may be received by the LLDD and passed to the transport before the LLDD had serviced the hw completion and made the teardown calls for the original job struct. As such, there is no available job struct available for the new io. E.g. it appears like the host sent more queue elements than the queue size. It didn't based on it's understanding. Rather than treat this temporarily overflow of the queue resources as a hard connection failure, change the api slightly to temporarily queue the new command until the job resource is freed up. The impact to the LLDD is in the cases where release can't be immediate, the LLDD must wait until a new callback is called notifying the release of the cmd iu buffer. Support for this api change is indicated by a non-null callback function, and the new buffer-held semantic is indicated by an -EOVERFLOW status code return from nvmet_fc_rcv_fcp_req(). James Smart (2): nvmet_fc: add defer_req callback for deferment of cmd buffer return lpfc: support nvmet_fc defer_rcv callback drivers/nvme/target/fc.c | 212 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c | 5 +- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_nvmet.c | 30 ++++++ drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_nvmet.h | 1 + include/linux/nvme-fc-driver.h | 7 ++ 6 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) -- 2.13.1
