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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sathya Prakash <Sathya.Prakash@broadcom.com>,
	Suganath Prabu Subramani  <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mpt3sas: Use driver scsi lookup to track outstanding IOs
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:50:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq14l8p9tgf.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHsXFKGbNfJ32EE_Gyz9yC0k+yNB=rgMQZc+jAQr2nFPDC+oFg@mail.gmail.com> (Kashyap Desai's message of "Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:35:10 +0530")


Kashyap,

> Primary drawback of using "blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter" is API is only for
> blk-mq and it is not available for all the kernel with blk-mq
> support. We have seen multiple failures from customer and those
> kernels does not support blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter. In fact, blk-mq and
> non-mq stack is alive in many Linux distribution and customer is using
> those.

I'm afraid the burden falls upon Broadcom to manage enablement patches
for older kernels. So the non-MQ/non-tagset-busy-iter cases are not
particularly relevant for the discussion here.

Let's focus on getting some usable plumbing that drivers can use to
abort oustanding tags.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-27 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-21 12:11 [PATCH v1] mpt3sas: Use driver scsi lookup to track outstanding IOs Sreekanth Reddy
     [not found] ` <20190222152433.CF1822086A@mail.kernel.org>
2019-02-25  5:12   ` Sreekanth Reddy
2019-02-25 19:08 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-26 11:48   ` Sreekanth Reddy
2019-02-26 12:28     ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-26 13:12       ` Sreekanth Reddy
2019-02-26 13:49         ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-26 14:33           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-02-26 14:40             ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-26 14:53             ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-26 16:05               ` Kashyap Desai
2019-02-27 14:50                 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2019-02-28 13:25                   ` Sreekanth Reddy

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