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Harvey Harrison
411c41eea5 aoe: remove private mac address format function
Add %pm to omit the colons when printing a mac address.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-25 00:40:37 -08:00
David S. Miller
e9bb8fb0b6 aoe: Use SKB interfaces for list management instead of home-grown stuff.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-21 22:36:49 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
0302190411 remove aoedev_isbusy()
Remove the no longer used aoedev_isbusy().

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:24 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
52e112b3ab aoe: update copyright date
Update the year in the copyright notices.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
9bb237b6a6 aoe: dynamically allocate a capped number of skbs when necessary
What this Patch Does

  Even before this recent series of 12 patches to 2.6.22-rc4, the aoe
  driver was reusing a small set of skbs that were allocated once and
  were only used for outbound AoE commands.

  The network layer cannot be allowed to put_page on the data that is
  still associated with a bio we haven't returned to the block layer,
  so the aoe driver (even before the patch under discussion) is still
  the owner of skbs that have been handed to the network layer for
  transmission.  We need to keep track of these skbs so that we can
  free them, but by tracking them, we can also easily re-use them.

  The new patch was a response to the behavior of certain network
  drivers.  We cannot reuse an skb that the network driver still has
  in its transmit ring.  Network drivers can defer transmit ring
  cleanup and then use the state in the skb to determine how many data
  segments to clean up in its transmit ring.  The tg3 driver is one
  driver that behaves in this way.

  When the network driver defers cleanup of its transmit ring, the aoe
  driver can find itself in a situation where it would like to send an
  AoE command, and the AoE target is ready for more work, but the
  network driver still has all of the pre-allocated skbs.  In that
  case, the new patch just calls alloc_skb, as you'd expect.

  We don't want to get carried away, though.  We try not to do
  excessive allocation in the write path, so we cap the number of skbs
  we dynamically allocate.

  Probably calling it a "dynamic pool" is misleading.  We were already
  trying to use a small fixed-size set of pre-allocated skbs before
  this patch, and this patch just provides a little headroom (with a
  ceiling, though) to accomodate network drivers that hang onto skbs,
  by allocating when needed.  The d->skbpool_hd list of allocated skbs
  is necessary so that we can free them later.

  We didn't notice the need for this headroom until AoE targets got
  fast enough.

Alternatives

  If the network layer never did a put_page on the pages in the bio's
  we get from the block layer, then it would be possible for us to
  hand skbs to the network layer and forget about them, allowing the
  network layer to free skbs itself (and thereby calling our own
  skb->destructor callback function if we needed that).  In that case
  we could get rid of the pre-allocated skbs and also the
  d->skbpool_hd, instead just calling alloc_skb every time we wanted
  to transmit a packet.  The slab allocator would effectively maintain
  the list of skbs.

  Besides a loss of CPU cache locality, the main concern with that
  approach the danger that it would increase the likelihood of
  deadlock when VM is trying to free pages by writing dirty data from
  the page cache through the aoe driver out to persistent storage on
  an AoE device.  Right now we have a situation where we have
  pre-allocation that corresponds to how much we use, which seems
  ideal.

  Of course, there's still the separate issue of receiving the packets
  that tell us that a write has successfully completed on the AoE
  target.  When memory is low and VM is using AoE to flush dirty data
  to free up pages, it would be perfect if there were a way for us to
  register a fast callback that could recognize write command
  completion responses.  But I don't think the current problems with
  the receive side of the situation are a justification for
  exacerbating the problem on the transmit side.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:32 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
262bf54144 aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices
When an AoE device is detected, the kernel is informed, and a new block device
is created.  If the device is unused, the block device corresponding to remote
device that is no longer available may be removed from the system by telling
the aoe driver to "flush" its list of devices.

Without this patch, software like GPFS and LVM may attempt to read from AoE
devices that were discovered earlier but are no longer present, blocking until
the I/O attempt times out.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
1eb0da4cea aoe: mac_addr: avoid 64-bit arch compiler warnings
By returning unsigned long long, mac_addr does not generate compiler warnings
on 64-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
68e0d42f39 aoe: handle multiple network paths to AoE device
A remote AoE device is something can process ATA commands and is identified by
an AoE shelf number and an AoE slot number.  Such a device might have more
than one network interface, and it might be reachable by more than one local
network interface.  This patch tracks the available network paths available to
each AoE device, allowing them to be used more efficiently.

Andrew Morton asked about the call to msleep_interruptible in the revalidate
function.  Yes, if a signal is pending, then msleep_interruptible will not
return 0.  That means we will not loop but will call aoenet_xmit with a NULL
skb, which is a noop.  If the system is too low on memory or the aoe driver is
too low on frames, then the user can hit control-C to interrupt the attempt to
do a revalidate.  I have added a comment to the code summarizing that.

Andrew Morton asked whether the allocation performed inside addtgt could use a
more relaxed allocation like GFP_KERNEL, but addtgt is called when the aoedev
lock has been locked with spin_lock_irqsave.  It would be nice to allocate the
memory under fewer restrictions, but targets are only added when the device is
being discovered, and if the target can't be added right now, we can try again
in a minute when then next AoE config query broadcast goes out.

Andrew Morton pointed out that the "too many targets" message could be printed
for failing GFP_ATOMIC allocations.  The last patch in this series makes the
messages more specific.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
8911ef4dc9 aoe: bring driver version number to 47
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
abdbf94d7c aoe: remove unecessary wrapper function
We can just use skb_mac_header now, and we don't need a wrapper function to
perform the cast.  Instead of requiring the reader to check aoe.h to look
up what an aoe_hdr function does, I'd rather do without it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
Jens Axboe
165125e1e4 [BLOCK] Get rid of request_queue_t typedef
Some of the code has been gradually transitioned to using the proper
struct request_queue, but there's lots left. So do a full sweet of
the kernel and get rid of this typedef and replace its uses with
the proper type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-24 09:28:11 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
98e399f82a [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_mac_header()
For the places where we need a pointer to the mac header, it is still legal to
touch skb->mac.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it
to another layer header.

This one also converts some more cases to skb_reset_mac_header() that my
regex missed as it had no spaces before nor after '=', ugh.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:41 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
029720f15d [AOE]: Introduce aoe_hdr()
For consistency with other skb->mac.raw users.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:28 -07:00
David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
Ed L. Cashin
a12c93f08b aoe: revert printk macros
This patch addresses the concern that the aoe driver should
not introduce unecessary conventions that must be learned by
the reader.  It reverts patch 6.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:53:51 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
086216db14 aoe: update driver version
Update aoe driver version number to 32.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:53:51 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
4f51dc5e9a aoe: zero copy write 2 of 2
Avoid memory copy on writes.
(This patch follows patch 4.)

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:53:50 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
dced3a053d aoe: improve retransmission heuristics
Add a dynamic minimum timer for better retransmission behavior.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:53:50 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
6bb6285fdb aoe: clean up printks via macros
Use simple macros to clean up the printks.
(This patch is reverted by the 14th patch to follow.)

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:53:50 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
19bf26353c aoe: jumbo frame support 1 of 2
Add support for jumbo ethernet frames.
(This patch depends on patch 7 to follow.)

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:53:50 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
e407a7f6cd aoe: zero copy write 1 of 2
Avoid memory copy on writes.
(This patch depends on fixes in patch 9 to follow.)

Although skb->len should not be set when working with linear skbuffs,
the skb->tail pointer maintained by skb_put/skb_trim is not relevant
to what happens when the skb_fill_page_desc function is called.  This
issue was raised without comment in linux-kernel and netdev earlier
this month:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/446474/
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/45444/

So until there is something analogous to skb_put that works for
zero-copy write skbuffs, we will do what the other callers of
skb_fill_page_desc are doing.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:53:50 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
2611464d7f aoe: update copyright date
Update the copyright year to 2006.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:53:50 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
0fdf109676 [PATCH] aoe [3/3]: update version to 22
Increase version number to 22.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
2006-03-23 22:01:57 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
a712c0efbf [PATCH] aoe [8/8]: update driver version number
Update aoe driver version number.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-23 22:01:56 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
3ae1c24e39 [PATCH] aoe [2/8]: support dynamic resizing of AoE devices
Allow the driver to recognize AoE devices that have changed size.
Devices not in use are updated automatically, and devices that are in
use are updated at user request.

Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-23 22:01:55 -08:00
Ed L. Cashin
3dc7c55563 [PATCH] aoe: update to version 14
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Update driver version number to 14.
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Ed L Cashin
49a1fd60d2 [PATCH] aoe [2/2]: update driver version number to twelve
Update driver version number to twelve.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-09 14:23:19 -07:00
Ed L Cashin
e39526e6e7 [PATCH] aoe [1/2]: support 16 AoE slot addresses per AoE shelf
Change the number of supported AoE slot addresses per AoE shelf
address to 16.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-09 14:23:16 -07:00
Ed L Cashin
0e57c71666 [PATCH] aoe: update version number to 10
update version number to 10

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-03 23:34:55 -07:00
ecashin@coraid.com
a4b3836409 [PATCH] aoe 12/12: send outgoing packets in order
I can't use list.h, since sk_buff doesn't have a list_head but instead
has two struct sk_buff pointers, and I want to avoid any extra memory
allocation.

send outgoing packets in order

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18 22:00:22 -07:00
ecashin@coraid.com
0c6f0e7920 [PATCH] aoe 11/12: add support for disk statistics
add support for disk statistics

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18 22:00:22 -07:00
ecashin@coraid.com
63e9cc5d6f [PATCH] aoe 6/12: Alexey Dobriyan sparse cleanup
Alexey Dobriyan sparse cleanup

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18 22:00:20 -07:00
ecashin@coraid.com
b68650fd3f [PATCH] aoe 3/12: update driver version to 6
update driver version to 6

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18 22:00:18 -07:00
ecashin@coraid.com
32465c6506 [PATCH] aoe 2/12: allow multiple aoe devices with same MAC
allow multiple aoe devices with same MAC addr

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18 22:00:18 -07:00
ecashin@coraid.com
fc458dcda2 [PATCH] aoe 1/12: remove too-low cap on minor number
remove too-low cap on minor number

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18 22:00:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00