From: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
<linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/20] scsi: core: Add support for internal commands
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:08:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5244b111-66ea-af2b-4e98-343a96c7367e@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <24ce9815-c01d-9ad4-2221-5a5b041ee231@acm.org>
On 22/11/2021 17:46, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>
>> struct scsi_cmnd *scsi_get_internal_cmd(struct scsi_device *sdev, ..)
>> struct scsi_cmnd *scsi_host_get_internal_cmd(struct Scsi_Host *shost, ..)
>
> Passing a request queue pointer as first argument instead of a struct
> scsi_device is a deliberate choice. In the UFS driver (and probably also
> in other SCSI LLDs) we want to allocate internal requests without these
> requests being visible in any existing SCSI device statistics.
> Creating
> a new SCSI device for the allocation of internal requests is not a good
> choice because that new SCSI device would have to be assigned a LUN
> number and would be visible in sysfs.
But I was not suggesting that.
Hannes series which he points us at recently added an "admin"
request_queue for a scsi_host, for when we don't want or need a reserved
commands associated with an sdev. I assumed that you would do something
similar to this, which would replace ufs_hba.cmd_queue.
Thanks,
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-22 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-19 19:57 [PATCH v2 00/20] UFS patches for kernel v5.17 Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 01/20] block: Add a flag for internal commands Bart Van Assche
2021-11-22 8:46 ` John Garry
2021-11-22 17:38 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/20] scsi: core: Unexport scsi_track_queue_full() Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 03/20] scsi: core: Fix scsi_device_max_queue_depth() Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 04/20] scsi: core: Fix a race between scsi_done() and scsi_times_out() Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 05/20] scsi: core: Add support for internal commands Bart Van Assche
2021-11-22 8:58 ` John Garry
2021-11-22 17:46 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-22 18:08 ` John Garry [this message]
2021-11-22 19:04 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-23 8:13 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-11-23 17:46 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-23 19:18 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-24 6:33 ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 06/20] scsi: core: Add support for reserved tags Bart Van Assche
2021-11-22 8:15 ` John Garry
2021-11-22 17:25 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-22 18:13 ` John Garry
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 07/20] scsi: ufs: Rename a function argument Bart Van Assche
2021-11-22 20:25 ` Bean Huo
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 08/20] scsi: ufs: Remove is_rpmb_wlun() Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 09/20] scsi: ufs: Remove the sdev_rpmb member Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 10/20] scsi: ufs: Remove dead code Bart Van Assche
2021-11-24 11:11 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-11-29 19:12 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 11/20] scsi: ufs: Switch to scsi_(get|put)_internal_cmd() Bart Van Assche
2021-11-23 12:20 ` Bean Huo
2021-11-23 17:54 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-23 19:41 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-24 18:18 ` Bean Huo
2021-11-24 11:02 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-11-24 11:15 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-11-29 19:32 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-30 6:41 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-11-30 17:51 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-30 19:15 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-11-30 19:21 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 12/20] scsi: ufs: Rework ufshcd_change_queue_depth() Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 13/20] scsi: ufs: Fix a deadlock in the error handler Bart Van Assche
2021-11-30 8:54 ` Bean Huo
2021-11-30 17:52 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-30 19:32 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-12-01 13:44 ` Bean Huo
2021-12-01 18:31 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 14/20] scsi: ufs: Introduce ufshcd_release_scsi_cmd() Bart Van Assche
2021-11-24 12:03 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-11-30 18:00 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-30 19:02 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-11-30 19:16 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 15/20] scsi: ufs: Improve SCSI abort handling Bart Van Assche
2021-11-24 12:28 ` Adrian Hunter
2021-11-30 4:13 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 16/20] scsi: ufs: Fix a kernel crash during shutdown Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 17/20] scsi: ufs: Stop using the clock scaling lock in the error handler Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 18/20] scsi: ufs: Optimize the command queueing code Bart Van Assche
2021-11-22 17:46 ` Asutosh Das (asd)
2021-11-22 18:13 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-22 23:02 ` Asutosh Das (asd)
2021-11-22 23:48 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-23 18:24 ` Asutosh Das (asd)
2021-12-01 18:33 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 19/20] scsi: ufs: Implement polling support Bart Van Assche
2021-11-30 8:43 ` Bean Huo
2021-11-30 8:57 ` Avri Altman
2021-11-30 9:15 ` Bean Huo
2021-11-30 14:26 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-30 15:40 ` Bean Huo
2021-11-30 17:34 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-30 17:37 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-11-19 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 20/20] scsi: ufs: Fix race conditions related to driver data Bart Van Assche
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