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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] mpt2sas: store scsi io tracker data in the scsi command / request
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 18:18:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150407161823.GA19547@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55240223.4070205@kernel.dk>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 10:13:23AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> The mq case will also work for the !mq case when you call
>> scsi_host_find_tag and scsi_cmd_priv.   In general all the mq-specific
>> codepathes you add should become the default and only one, even if this
>> requires a lit bit of additional core work.
>
> For the core code, I definitely agree. But for this case, in scsi-mq mode, 
> we know that tag == smid - 1. That's not the case if we are not using 
> scsi-mq.

It is if you use the old block tagging code with host-wide tags.
I guess you'll need to tell mpt2 and mpt3 to use that firs, though.

> In general, it'd be great if we could "convert" drivers and not have to 
> support both scsi-mq and legacy mode. Then I could just rip the old code.

Well, the whole point is that you should be able to write a driver like
your mq version and it should just work. Even better would be if we
could get rid of the old case entirely for scsi, but for that we need
a I/O scheduler for blk-mq first :)


  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-07 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-03 15:58 [PATCH RFC] mpt2/mpt3sas lock reduction for scsi-mq Jens Axboe
2015-04-03 15:58 ` [PATCH 1/7] blk-mq: allow the callback to blk_mq_tag_busy_iter() to stop looping Jens Axboe
2015-04-03 15:58 ` [PATCH 2/7] blk-mq: add helper to iterate all busy tags on all hardware queues Jens Axboe
2015-04-03 15:58 ` [PATCH 3/7] scsi: add scsi-mq helpers to retrieve pdu and check started state Jens Axboe
2015-04-05 15:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-03 15:58 ` [PATCH 4/7] scsi: add scsi-mq helper for iterating over busy commands Jens Axboe
2015-04-05 15:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-03 15:58 ` [PATCH 5/7] scsi: add host template init/exit_command hooks Jens Axboe
2015-04-05 15:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-03 15:58 ` [PATCH 6/7] mpt2sas: store scsi io tracker data in the scsi command / request Jens Axboe
2015-04-05 16:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-04-07 16:13     ` Jens Axboe
2015-04-07 16:18       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-04-07 19:22         ` Jens Axboe
2015-04-03 15:58 ` [PATCH 7/7] mpt3sas: " Jens Axboe

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