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* RFC: split scsi passthrough fields out of struct request
@ 2017-01-10 15:06 Christoph Hellwig
  2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 01/15] virtio_blk: avoid DMA to stack for the sense buffer Christoph Hellwig
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  0 siblings, 16 replies; 35+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2017-01-10 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jens Axboe; +Cc: Mike Snitzer, linux-block, linux-scsi, dm-devel

Hi all,

this series splits the support for SCSI passthrough commands from the
main struct request used all over the block layer into a separate
scsi_request structure that drivers that want to support SCSI passthough
need to embedded as the first thing into their request-private data,
similar to how we handle NVMe passthrough commands.

To support this I've added support for that the private data after
request structure to the legacy request path instead, so that it can
be treated the same way as the blk-mq path.  Compare to the current
scsi_cmnd allocator that actually is a major simplification.

There is one major show-stopper for the series as-is:  Request-based
device mapper currently allocate the request structures in the stacking
driver without a knowledge of the queue it's going to be submitte on
for the legacy request path.  It managed to avoid that issue for the
blk-mq path, but that currently can't be used on legacy request devices
for reasons I don't fully understand.  We'll need to figure out how
sort this out, but maybe that's a good opportunity to drop one or two
of the three different dm-mpath I/O paths? :)

Note that the first two patches are 4.10 material and have already
been submitted independently.

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2017-01-10 15:06 RFC: split scsi passthrough fields out of struct request Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 01/15] virtio_blk: avoid DMA to stack for the sense buffer Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-11  8:26   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-11  8:43     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 02/15] nvme-rdma: fix nvme_rdma_queue_is_ready Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 03/15] block: simplify blk_init_allocated_queue Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 04/15] block: allow specifying size for extra command data Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 05/15] dm: remove incomple BLOCK_PC support Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-12  1:09   ` Mike Snitzer
2017-01-12  8:00     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-12 22:28       ` Mike Snitzer
2017-01-13  8:14         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 06/15] scsi_dh_rdac: switch to scsi_execute_req_flags() Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 07/15] scsi_dh_emc: " Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 08/15] scsi_dh_hp_sw: " Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 09/15] scsi: remove gfp_flags member in scsi_host_cmd_pool Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 10/15] scsi: respect unchecked_isa_dma for blk-mq Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 11/15] scsi: remove scsi_cmd_dma_pool Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 12/15] scsi: remove __scsi_alloc_queue Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 13/15] scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as part of struct request Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 14/15] block/bsg: move queue creation into bsg_setup_queue Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-11  8:42   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-11  8:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-11  8:56       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-01-11  8:59         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-11  8:59       ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-11  9:01         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-11  9:37           ` Hannes Reinecke
2017-01-11 22:08             ` Mike Snitzer
2017-01-11 22:01       ` Mike Snitzer
2017-01-12  7:57         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-10 15:06 ` [PATCH 15/15] block: split scsi_request out of struct request Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-12  3:59   ` Jens Axboe
2017-01-11 22:41 ` RFC: split scsi passthrough fields " Mike Snitzer
2017-01-12  7:59   ` Christoph Hellwig

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