Re: [PATCH 0/8] Drop host_lock around LLD SHT->queuecommand() caller

["Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>]

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 15:35 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> This series contains the first round of a whole-sale conversion for droping
> struct Scsi_Host->host_lock around struct Scsi_Host->queuecommand() within
> scsi_dispatch_cmd().  So with this first patch the only part of scsi_dispatch_cmd()
> that is protected by host_lock is scsi_cmd_get_serial)_.
> 
> The patches #2 -> #8 converts libiscsi, libsas, lpfc, qla4xxx, qla2xxx,
> TCM_Loop, and libfc code to drop their own SHT->queuecommand() internal
> host_lock unlock() + lock() optimization that certain high performance libs
> and LLDs have adopted over the years.  The changes involved here are really
> quite straight forward, but please note that none of this code has been tested
> with actual hardware yet, and is intended for generating comments for the relivent
> SCSI LLD driver maintainers and other interested folks.
> 
> There are probably still be more LLDs which use this optimization, so please
> let me know if there is another piece of SHT->queuecommand() caller code that
> does this legacy optimization and needs to be updated.  I will be sure to
> CC the right driver maintainers and CC linux-scsi as I come across any more
> conversions.

Hi Guys,

drivers/scsi/fnic needs the conversion as well..  Here is that patch;

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/nab/lio-core-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3c886b2ab6faccbe2803094deb7a9647199e5118

Thanks!

--nab