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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@daterainc.com>
Cc: target-devel <target-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>,
	Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/12] target: Convert se_portal_group->tpg_lun_list[] to RCU hlist
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 08:46:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519064612.GA30172@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431422736-29125-10-git-send-email-nab@daterainc.com>

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:25:33AM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
> 
> This patch converts the fixed size se_portal_group->tpg_lun_list[]
> to use modern RCU with hlist_head in order to support an arbitary
> number of se_lun ports per target endpoint.
> 
> It includes dropping core_tpg_alloc_lun() from core_dev_add_lun(),
> and calling it directly from target_fabric_make_lun() to allocate
> a new se_lun.
> 
> Also add a new target_fabric_port_release() configfs item callback
> to invoke call_rcu() to release memory during se_lun->lun_group
> shutdown.
> 
> Also now that se_node_acl->lun_entry_hlist is using RCU, convert
> existing tpg_lun_lock to struct mutex so core_tpg_add_node_to_devs()
> can perform RCU updater logic without releasing ->tpg_lun_mutex.

FYI, you can also kill ->lun_status with this as only allocated
se_lun structures will ever be on the list.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-19  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-12  9:25 [PATCH 00/12] target: TPG/NodeACL LUN table conversion to RCU hlist Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 01/12] target: Convert se_node_acl->device_list[] " Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12 20:58   ` Andy Grover
2015-05-13  5:08     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  5:32       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13  5:41         ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  5:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13  6:20     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  6:48       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13  6:35   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13  8:46     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-17 16:51       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-18  7:17         ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-18  7:41           ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-18  8:01             ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-19  6:05               ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-19  6:22                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-21 17:03                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-21 18:10                     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 02/12] target: Convert REPORT_LUN + MODE_SENSE to RCU reader Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  5:47   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13  8:10     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 03/12] target/configfs: Convert mappedlun + SCSI MIBs " Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12 20:58   ` Andy Grover
2015-05-13  5:09     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  5:49       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 04/12] target: Convert UNIT_ATTENTION logic " Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 05/12] target: Convert transport_lookup_*_lun " Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  5:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13  7:42     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 06/12] target/pr: Convert se_dev_entry to kref for RCU Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  5:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 07/12] target/pr: Convert registration check to RCU pointer Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  6:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 08/12] target/pr: Change alloc_registration to avoid pr_reg_tg_pt_lun Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 09/12] target: Convert se_portal_group->tpg_lun_list[] to RCU hlist Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  6:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-13  7:22     ` Juergen Gross
2015-05-13  7:53       ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-05-19  6:46   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 10/12] target: Convert se_tpg->acl_node_lock to ->acl_node_mutex Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 11/12] target: Convert core_tpg_deregister to use list splice Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-12  9:25 ` [PATCH 12/12] target: Drop unused se_lun->lun_acl_list Nicholas A. Bellinger
2015-05-13  6:29 ` [PATCH 00/12] target: TPG/NodeACL LUN table conversion to RCU hlist Christoph Hellwig

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