Re: [PATCH 0/] OSD changes for 2.6.31

Jeff Garzik
2009-05-25T14:39:48Z

Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> These are the accumulated osd patches for the next merge window,
> Linux 2.6.31.
>
> Most of these patches are a repost rebased on latest scsi-misc
>
> List of patches:
> [PATCH 01/10 resend] libosd: OSD2r05: Additional command enums
> [PATCH 02/10 resend] libosd: OSD2r05: Attribute definitions
> [PATCH 03/10 resend] libosd: Better printout of OSD target system information
> [PATCH 04/10 resend] libosd: osd_req_{read,write}_kern new API
> [PATCH 05/10 resend] libosd: Let _osd_req_finalize_data_integrity receive number of out_bytes
> [PATCH 06/10 resend] libosd: osd_req_{read,write} takes a length parameter
>
> These are a resend. The last 2 patches are important for supporting Jeff's
> osdblk driver. (The first 4 are old patches that thier time has come)
>
> [PATCH 07/10] libosd: Define an osd_dev wrapper to retrieve the request_queue
> Simple wrapper
>
> [PATCH 08/10] osduld: use filp_open() when looking up an osd-device
>
> This patch was inspired by Al Viro. It uses the in-kernel open-file
> mechanism to look up the osd char-device for Kernel users like exofs
> and later pNFS-Objlayout.
> It was heavily tested and works well.
> It fixes the problem we had before, of need to open+close a file handle
> on the osd-char-device before mounting an exofs.
> Please review
>
> [PATCH 09/10] libosd: Use REQ_QUIET requests.
> Recent scsi_lib changes, caused a dmesg span in exofs+osd regular use,
> because of the way we routinely receive a recovered scsi sense. Recently, for
> reason I could not find, this condition started to print messages at:
> scsi_io_comlition:778 (look for "== RECOVERED_ERROR")
> Use of a REQ_QUIET flag is needed to silence these prints.
> OSD has it's own prints for scsi-sense returns, when needed.
>
> [PATCH 10/10] osd: Remove out-of-tree left overs
>
> log stat
> drivers/scsi/osd/Kbuild | 25 -----------
> drivers/scsi/osd/Makefile | 37 -----------------
> drivers/scsi/osd/osd_initiator.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c | 66 ++++++++++++++----------------
> fs/exofs/common.h | 6 ---
> fs/exofs/inode.c | 8 ++--
> fs/exofs/osd.c | 26 ------------
> include/scsi/osd_attributes.h | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> include/scsi/osd_initiator.h | 14 +++++-
> include/scsi/osd_protocol.h | 8 ++++
> 10 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100755 drivers/scsi/osd/Makefile
>
> These patches are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.open-osd.org/linux-open-osd.git osd-devel

Any chance osdblk could get added to this patchset sometime soon?

Jeff