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* [PATCH 0/3] tcm: SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE emulation fixes and IBLOCK support
@ 2010-08-28  6:53 Nicholas A. Bellinger
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From: Nicholas A. Bellinger @ 2010-08-28  6:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-scsi, linux-kernel
  Cc: Christoph Hellwig, Tejun Heo, FUJITA Tomonori, Mike Christie,
	Hannes Reinecke, James Bottomley, Nicholas Bellinger

From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Greetings hch, tejun and Co,

These patches are a follow up to the series posted recently for lio-core-2.6.git/lio-4.0
here:

[PATCH 0/4] tcm: Add WriteCache + FUA Write support to TCM/FILEIO
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=128288359913333&w=2

The first and second patch follows hch's recommendation and remove the extra
'flush entire cache of device' struct se_subsystem_api->do_sync_cache() caller
from TCM Core in the original commit, and converts transport_generic_synchronize_cache()
and FILEIO dependent code to use struct se_subsystem_api->do_sync_cache_range()
for *both* the SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE emulation cases of 'per LBA + Number of Blocks Range'
flush and 'flush entrire cache of device' op.

The third patch in the series adds new support for WriteCache and FUA WRITE emulation
into the TCM/IBLOCK subsystem plugin using block/blk-barrier.c:blkdev_issue_flush()
w/ BLKDEV_IFL_WAIT flag.  Note that since blkdev_issue_flush() does not support a
LBA + Range flush, all TCM/IBLOCK SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE and FUA WRITE ops involving a
LBA + Range are converted into a global device cache flush op w/ blkdev_issue_flush().

Many thanks again to hch for his guidence in this area,

Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Nicholas Bellinger (3):
  tcm/fileio: Remove struct se_subsystem_api->do_sync_cache() usage
  tcm: Remove struct se_subsystem_api->do_sync_cache()
  tcm/iblock: Add WriteCache and Forced Unit Access WRITE emulation

 drivers/target/target_core_file.c      |   31 ++++----
 drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c    |  119 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 drivers/target/target_core_iblock.h    |    1 +
 drivers/target/target_core_transport.c |   21 +-----
 include/target/target_core_transport.h |    7 --
 5 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)


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