On 8/23/19 3:26 PM, John Garry wrote: > On 29/05/2019 14:28, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> quite some drivers use internal commands for various purposes, most >> commonly sending TMFs or querying the HBA status. >> While these commands use the same submission mechanism than normal >> I/O commands, they will not be counted as outstanding commands, >> requiring those drivers to implement their own mechanism to figure >> out outstanding commands. >> This patchset enables the use of reserved tags for the SCSI midlayer, >> enabling LLDDs to rely on the block layer for tracking outstanding >> commands. >> More importantly, it allows LLDD to request a valid tag from the block >> layer without having to implement some tracking mechanism within the >> driver. This removes quite some hacks which were required for some >> drivers (eg. fnic or snic). >> >> As usual, comments and reviews are welcome. >> > > Hi Hannes, > > I was wondering if you have any plans to progress this series? > > I don't mind helping out... > Thanks for the reminder. I'll need to re-evaluate this where we stand now with shared tags; this patchset partially relies on them. Will be sending an updated patchset.
Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg HRB 247165 (AG München), GF: Felix Imendörffer
