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Christoph Hellwig
5787cacd0b target: remove struct se_task
We can use struct se_cmd for everything it did.  Make sure to pass the S/G
list and data direction to the execution function to ease adding back BIDI
support later on.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-05-06 15:11:26 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
7a83aa4e7b target: remove the task_size field in struct se_task
Now that we don't split commands the size field in the task is always
equivalent to the one in the CDB, even in cases where we have two tasks
due to a BIDI transfer.  Just refer the the size in the command instead
of duplicating it in the task.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-05-06 15:03:41 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
ed3102c678 target: remove target_get_task_cdb
Now that tasks are always the same size as the command there is no need
to rewrite a CDB in common code.  Notw that we keep the separately allocated
CDB in the pscsi and stgt backends for now, to easy reintroducing any
command splitting local to these backends if nessecary.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-05-06 15:02:59 -07:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
e6a8a41a30 target/pscsi: fix PHV_VIRUTAL_HOST_ID typo
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-02-25 14:37:50 -08:00
Andy Grover
4949314c72 target: Allow control CDBs with data > 1 page
We need to handle >1 page control cdbs, so extend the code to do a vmap
if bigger than 1 page. It seems like kmap() is still preferable if just
a page, fewer TLB shootdowns(?), so keep using that when possible.

Rename function pair for their new scope.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2012-01-18 08:35:58 +00:00
Nicholas Bellinger
65586d51e0 target: Drop se_device TCQ queue_depth usage from I/O path
Historically, pSCSI devices have been the ones that required target-core
to enforce a per se_device->depth_left.  This patch changes target-core
to no longer (by default) enforce a per se_device->depth_left or sleep in
transport_tcq_window_closed() when we out of queue slots for all backend
export cases.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-12-14 11:42:13 +00:00
Jörn Engel
8359cf43b9 target: remove useless casts
A reader should spend an extra moment whenever noticing a cast,
because either something special is going on that deserves extra
attention or, as is all too often the case, the code is wrong.

These casts, afaics, have all been useless.  They cast a foo* to a
foo*, cast a void* to the assigned type, cast a foo* to void*, before
assigning it to a void* variable, etc.

In a few cases I also removed an additional &...[0], which is equally
useless.

Lastly I added three FIXMEs where, to the best of my judgement, the
code appears to have a bug.  It would be good if someone could check
these.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-12-14 11:28:07 +00:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
90c161b643 target: use \n as a separator for configuration
The command
| echo rd_pages=32768 > ramdisk/control

Does not work because it writes "rd_pages=32768\n" and the parser which
matches for "rd_pages=%d" does not recognize it due to the \n. One way
of fixing this would be using "echo -n" instead.
This patch adds \n to the list of separators so we don't have to use the
-n argument which I find is more convinient.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-12-14 11:27:23 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
c4795fb20e target: header reshuffle, part2
This reorganized the headers under include/target into:

 - target_core_base.h stays as is with all target-wide data stuctures and defines
 - target_core_backend.h contains the whole interface to I/O backends
 - target_core_fabric.h contains the whole interface to fabric modules

Except for those only the various configfs macro headers stay around.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-12-14 11:26:05 +00:00
Nicholas Bellinger
03e98c9eb9 target: Address legacy PYX_TRANSPORT_* return code breakage
This patch removes legacy usage of PYX_TRANSPORT_* return codes in a number
of locations and addresses cases where transport_generic_request_failure()
was returning the incorrect sense upon CHECK_CONDITION status after the
v3.1 converson to use errno return codes.

This includes the conversion of transport_generic_request_failure() to
process cmd->scsi_sense_reason and handle extra TCM_RESERVATION_CONFLICT
before calling transport_send_check_condition_and_sense() to queue up
response status.  It also drops PYX_TRANSPORT_OUT_OF_MEMORY_RESOURCES legacy
usgae, and returns TCM_LOGICAL_UNIT_COMMUNICATION_FAILURE w/ a response
for these cases.

transport_generic_allocate_tasks(), transport_generic_new_cmd(), backend
SCF_SCSI_DATA_SG_IO_CDB ->do_task(), and emulated ->execute_task() have
all been updated to set se_cmd->scsi_sense_reason and return errno codes
universally upon failure.  This includes cmd->scsi_sense_reason assignment
in target_core_alua.c, target_core_pr.c and target_core_cdb.c emulation code.

Finally it updates fabric modules to remove the legacy usage, and for
TFO->new_cmd_map() callers forwards return values outside of fabric code.
iscsi-target has also been updated to remove a handful of special cases
related to the cleanup and signaling QUEUE_FULL handling w/ ft_write_pending()

(v2: Drop extra SCF_SCSI_CDB_EXCEPTION check during failure from
     transport_generic_new_cmd, and re-add missing task->task_error_status
     assignment in transport_complete_task)

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-12-06 06:00:49 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
32aaeffbd4 Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
Dan Carpenter
ed327ed337 target/pscsi: blk_make_request() returns an ERR_PTR()
The check is wrong here because blk_make_request() returns an
ERR_PTR() and it doesn't return NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-11-02 15:58:47 +00:00
Paul Gortmaker
827509e38e drivers/target: Add module.h to drivers/target files as required.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:31:59 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
7c1c6af37a target: remove the task_sg_bidi field se_task and pSCSI BIDI support
This field is never used given that BIDI handling happens at the
command and not the task level.  Remove it and the dead code in
pscsi that tries to work on it.

It also prevents pSCSI passthrough for the two currently enabled BIDI
commands now that task->task_sg_bidi support has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:21:56 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
485fd0d1e3 target: replace ->get_cdb with a target_get_task_cdb helper
Instead of calling out to the backends from the core to get a per-task
CDB and then modify it for the LBA/len pair used for this CDB provide
a helper that writes the adjusted CDB into a provided buffer and call
this method from ->do_task in pscsi.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:21:13 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
42bf829eee target: Cleanup unused se_task bits
This is a squashed version of the following se_task cleanup patches:

    target: remove the unused task_state_flags field in se_task
    target: remove the unused se_obj_ptr field in se_task
    target: remove the se_dev field in se_task

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:21:05 +00:00
Dan Carpenter
942d82646e target: Make pscsi_create_virtdevice use ERR_CAST
This patch changes pscsi_create_virtdevice() to properly return ERR_CAST
instead of a raw pointer upon scsi_host_lookup() failure.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:20:51 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
02b1a74634 target: cleanup pscsi request submission
Move the entirely request allocation, mapping and submission into ->do_task.
This

 a) avoids blocking the I/O submission thread unessecarily, and
 b) simplifies the code greatly

Note that the code seems to have various error handling issues, mostly
related to bidi handling in the current form.  I've added comments about
those but not tried to fix them in this commit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:20:44 +00:00
Jesper Juhl
9375b1bfd2 target: Remove unneeded version.h includes
It was pointed out by 'make versioncheck' that some includes of
linux/version.h are not needed in drivers/target/.
This patch removes them.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-11 04:10:19 +00:00
Nicholas Bellinger
1d20bb6147 target: ->map_task_SG conversion to ->map_control_SG and ->map_data_SG
This patch breaks up the ->map_task_SG() backend call into two seperate
->map_control_SG() and ->map_data_SG() in order to better address
IBLOCK and pSCSI.  IBLOCK only allocates bios for ->map_data_SG(), and
pSCSI will allocate a struct request for both cases.

This patch fixes incorrect usage of ->map_task_SG() for all se_cmd descriptors
in transport_generic_new_cmd() by moving the call into it's proper location
directly inside of transport_allocate_data_tasks()

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:48 +00:00
Andy Grover
6708bb27bb target: Follow up core updates from AGrover and HCH (round 4)
This patch contains the squashed version of forth round series cleanups
from Andy and Christoph following the post heavy lifting in the preceeding:
'Eliminate usage of struct se_mem' and 'Make all control CDBs scatter-gather'
changes.  This also includes a conversion of target core and the v3.0
mainline fabric modules (loopback and tcm_fc) to use pr_debug and the
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG infrastructure!

These have been squashed into this third and final round for v3.1.

target: Remove ifdeffed code in t_g_process_write
target: Remove direct ramdisk code
target: Rename task_sg_num to task_sg_nents
target: Remove custom debug macros for pr_debug. Use pr_err().
target: Remove custom debug macros in mainline fabrics
target: Set WSNZ=1 in block limits VPD. Abort if WRITE_SAME sectors = 0
target: Remove transport do_se_mem_map callback
target: Further simplify transport_free_pages
target: Redo task allocation return value handling
target: Remove extra parentheses
target: change alloc_task call to take *cdb, not *cmd

(nab: Fix bogus struct file assignments in fd_do_readv and fd_do_writev)

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:48 +00:00
Andy Grover
ec98f7825c target: Eliminate usage of struct se_mem
Both backstores and fabrics use arrays of struct scatterlist to describe
data buffers. However TCM used struct se_mems, basically a linked list
of scatterlist entries. We are able to simplify the code by eliminating
this intermediate data structure and just using struct scatterlist[]
throughout.

Also, moved attachment of task to cmd out of transport_generic_get_task
and into allocate_control_task and allocate_data_tasks. The reasoning
is that it's nonintuitive that get_task should automatically add it to
the cmd's task list -- it should just return an allocated, initialized
task. That's all it should do, based on the function's name, so either the
function shouldn't do it, or the name should change to encapsulate the
entire essence of what it does.

(nab: Fix compile warnings in tcm_fc, and make transport_kmap_first_data_page
 honor sg->offset for SGLs from contigious memory with TCM_Loop, and
 fix control se_cmd descriptor memory leak)

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:48 +00:00
Andy Grover
05d1c7c0d0 target: Make all control CDBs scatter-gather
Previously, some control CDBs did not allocate memory in pages for their
data buffer, but just did a kmalloc. This patch makes all cdbs allocate
pages.

This has the benefit of streamlining some paths that had to behave
differently when we used two allocation methods. The downside is that
all accesses to the data buffer need to kmap it before use, and need to
handle data in page-sized chunks if more than a page is needed for a given
command's data buffer.

Finally, note that cdbs with no data buffers are handled a little
differently. Before, SCSI_NON_DATA_CDBs would not call get_mem at all
(they'd be in the final else in transport_allocate_resources) but now
these will make it into generic_get_mem, but just not allocate any
buffers.

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:48 +00:00
Andy Grover
a1d8b49abd target: Updates from AGrover and HCH (round 3)
This patch contains a squashed version of third round series cleanups,
improvements ,and simplfications from Andy and Christoph ahead of the
heavy lifting between round 3 -> 4 for the target core SGL conversion.

This include cleanups to the main target I/O path and other miscellaneous
updates.

target: Replace custom sg<->buf functions with lib funcs
target: Simplify sector limiting code
target: get_cdb should never return NULL
target: Simplify transport_memcpy_se_mem_read_contig
target: Use assignment rather than increment for t_task_cdbs
target: Don't pass dma_size to generic_get_mem
target: Pass sg with type scatterlist in transport_map_sg_to_mem
target: Move task_sg_num next to task_sg in struct se_task
target: inline struct se_transport_task into struct se_cmd
target: Change name & semantics of transport_get_sectors()
target: Remove unused members of se_cmd
target: Rename se_cmd.t_task_cdbs to t_task_list_num
target: Fix some spelling
target: Remove unused var from transport_generic_do_tmr
target: map_sg_to_mem: return sg_count in return value
target/pscsi: Use min_t for sector limits
target/pscsi: Unused param for pscsi_get_bio()
target: Rename get_cdb_count to allocate_tasks
target: Make transport_generic_new_cmd() available for iscsi-target
target: Remove fabric callback to allocate iovecs
target: Fix transport_generic_new_cmd WRITE comment

(hch: Use __GFP_ZERO usage for alloc_pages() usage)

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:44 +00:00
Andy Grover
5951146dea target: More core cleanups from AGrover (round 2)
This patch contains the squashed version of second round of target core
cleanups and simplifications and Andy and Co.   It also contains a handful
of fixes to address bugs the original series and other minor cleanups.

Here is the condensed shortlog:

target: Remove unneeded casts to void*
target: Rename get_lun_for_{cmd,tmr} to lookup_{cmd,tmr}_lun
target: Make t_task a member of se_cmd, not a pointer
target: Handle functions returning "-2"
target: Use cmd->se_dev over cmd->se_lun->lun_se_dev
target: Embed qr in struct se_cmd
target: Replace embedded struct se_queue_req with a list_head
target: Rename list_heads that are nodes in struct se_cmd to "*_node"
target: Fold transport_device_setup_cmd() into lookup_{tmr,cmd}_lun()
target: Make t_mem_list and t_mem_list_bidi members of t_task
target: Add comment & cleanup transport_map_sg_to_mem()
target: Remove unneeded checks in transport_free_pages()

(Roland: Fix se_queue_req removal leftovers OOPs)
(nab: Fix transport_lookup_tmr_lun failure case)
(nab: Fix list_empty(&cmd->t_task.t_mem_bidi_list) inversion bugs)

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:43 +00:00
Andy Grover
e3d6f909ed target: Core cleanups from AGrover (round 1)
This patch contains the squashed version of a number of cleanups and
minor fixes from Andy's initial series (round 1) for target core this
past spring.  The condensed log looks like:

target: use errno values instead of returning -1 for everything
target: Rename transport_calc_sg_num to transport_init_task_sg
target: Fix leak in error path in transport_init_task_sg
target/pscsi: Remove pscsi_get_sh() usage
target: Make two runtime checks into WARN_ONs
target: Remove hba queue depth and convert to spin_lock_irq usage
target: dev->dev_status_queue_obj is unused
target: Make struct se_queue_req.cmd type struct se_cmd *
target: Remove __transport_get_qr_from_queue()
target: Rename se_dev->g_se_dev_list to se_dev_node
target: Remove struct se_global
target: Simplify scsi mib index table code
target: Make dev_queue_obj a member of se_device instead of a pointer
target: remove extraneous returns at end of void functions
target: Ensure transport_dump_vpd_ident_type returns null-terminated str
target: Function pointers don't need to use '&' to be assigned
target: Fix comment in __transport_execute_tasks()
target: Misc style cleanups
target: rename struct pr_reservation_template to pr_reservation
target: Remove #defines that just perform indirection
target: Inline transport_get_task_from_execute_queue()
target: Minor header comment fixes

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:43 +00:00
Nicholas Bellinger
e66ecd505a [SCSI] target: Convert TASK_ATTR to scsi_tcq.h definitions
This patch converts target core and follwing scsi-misc upstream fabric
modules to use include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h includes for SIMPLE, HEAD_OF_QUEUE
and ORDERED SCSI tasks instead of scsi/libsas.h with TASK_ATTR*

*) tcm_loop: Convert tcm_loop_allocate_core_cmd() + tcm_loop_device_reset() to
   scsi_tcq.h
*) tcm_fc: Convert ft_send_cmd() from FCP_PTA_* to scsi_tcq.h

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
2011-05-24 13:03:56 -04:00
Dan Carpenter
5dd7ed2e81 [SCSI] target: Minor sparse warning fixes and annotations
This patch addresses the majority of sparse warnings and adds
proper locking annotations.  It also fixes the dubious one-bit signed
bitfield, for which the signed one-bit types can be 0 or -1 which can
cause a problem if someone ever checks if (foo->lu_gp_assoc == 1).
The current code is fine because everyone just checks zero vs non-zero.
But Sparse complains about it so lets change it.  The warnings look like
this:

include/target/target_core_base.h:228:26: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:29 -05:00
Nicholas Bellinger
613640e4e1 [SCSI] target: Convert backend ->create_virtdevice() call to return ERR_PTR
This patch converts the target_core_store_dev_enable() -> struct
se_subsystem_api->create_virtdevice() call to return proper ERR_PTR values
back up to configfs logic during backend dependent struct se_device ENABLE
exception conditions.

Along with the change to target_core_configfs.c, this includes converting IBLOCK,
FILEIO, pSCSI, and RAMDISK_* backend subsystem plugins to obtain upper level
PTR_ERR return codes (where available), and return via ERR_PTR during a
*_create_virtdev() failure.

Reported-by: Fubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:24 -05:00
Roland Dreier
8fc1858a42 [SCSI] target: Fix memory leak on error path in pscsi_alloc_task
If allocation of pt->pscsi_cdb fails, we need to free the just-allocated
pt or else it will be leaked.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:18 -05:00
Arnd Bergmann
5edc341313 drivers: remove extraneous includes of smp_lock.h
These were missed the last time I cleaned this up
globally, because of code moving around or new code
getting merged.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-03-02 00:02:40 +01:00
Dan Carpenter
3ae279d259 [SCSI] target: iblock/pscsi claim checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR
blkdev_get_by_path() returns an ERR_PTR() or error and it doesn't return
a NULL.  It looks like this bug would be easy to trigger by mistake.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-02-12 11:29:07 -06:00
Nicholas Bellinger
c66ac9db8d [SCSI] target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6
LIO target is a full featured in-kernel target framework with the
following feature set:

High-performance, non-blocking, multithreaded architecture with SIMD
support.

Advanced SCSI feature set:

    * Persistent Reservations (PRs)
    * Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA)
    * Protocol and intra-nexus multiplexing, load-balancing and failover (MC/S)
    * Full Error Recovery (ERL=0,1,2)
    * Active/active task migration and session continuation (ERL=2)
    * Thin LUN provisioning (UNMAP and WRITE_SAMExx)

Multiprotocol target plugins

Storage media independence:

    * Virtualization of all storage media; transparent mapping of IO to LUNs
    * No hard limits on number of LUNs per Target; maximum LUN size ~750 TB
    * Backstores: SATA, SAS, SCSI, BluRay, DVD, FLASH, USB, ramdisk, etc.

Standards compliance:

    * Full compliance with IETF (RFC 3720)
    * Full implementation of SPC-4 PRs and ALUA

Significant code cleanups done by Christoph Hellwig.

[jejb: fix up for new block bdev exclusive interface. Minor fixes from
 Randy Dunlap and Dan Carpenter.]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-01-14 10:12:29 -06:00