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<title>Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T23:11:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2013-09-12T23:11:45+00:00</published>
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Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
 "Lots of activity again this round for I/O performance optimizations
  (per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for vhost + iscsi/target), and the
  addition of new fabric independent features to target-core
  (COMPARE_AND_WRITE + EXTENDED_COPY).

  The main highlights include:

   - Support for iscsi-target login multiplexing across individual
     network portals
   - Generic Per-cpu IDA logic (kent + akpm + clameter)
   - Conversion of vhost to use per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for
     descriptors, SGLs and userspace page pointer list
   - Conversion of iscsi-target + iser-target to use per-cpu IDA
     pre-allocation for descriptors
   - Add support for generic COMPARE_AND_WRITE (AtomicTestandSet)
     emulation for virtual backend drivers
   - Add support for generic EXTENDED_COPY (CopyOffload) emulation for
     virtual backend drivers.
   - Add support for fast memory registration mode to iser-target (Vu)

  The patches to add COMPARE_AND_WRITE and EXTENDED_COPY support are of
  particular significance, which make us the first and only open source
  target to support the full set of VAAI primitives.

  Currently Linux clients are lacking upstream support to actually
  utilize these primitives.  However, with server side support now in
  place for folks like MKP + ZAB working on the client, this logic once
  reserved for the highest end of storage arrays, can now be run in VMs
  on their laptops"

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (50 commits)
  target/iscsi: Bump versions to v4.1.0
  target: Update copyright ownership/year information to 2013
  iscsi-target: Bump default TCP listen backlog to 256
  target: Fix &gt;= v3.9+ regression in PR APTPL + ALUA metadata write-out
  iscsi-target; Bump default CmdSN Depth to 64
  iscsi-target: Remove unnecessary wait_for_completion in iscsi_get_thread_set
  iscsi-target: Add thread_set-&gt;ts_activate_sem + use common deallocate
  iscsi-target: Fix race with thread_pre_handler flush_signals + ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE
  target: remove unused including &lt;linux/version.h&gt;
  iser-target: introduce fast memory registration mode (FRWR)
  iser-target: generalize rdma memory registration and cleanup
  iser-target: move rdma wr processing to a shared function
  target: Enable global EXTENDED_COPY setup/release
  target: Add Third Party Copy (3PC) bit in INQUIRY response
  target: Enable EXTENDED_COPY setup in spc_parse_cdb
  target: Add support for EXTENDED_COPY copy offload emulation
  target: Avoid non-existent tg_pt_gp_mem in target_alua_state_check
  target: Add global device list for EXTENDED_COPY
  target: Make helpers non static for EXTENDED_COPY command setup
  target: Make spc_parse_naa_6h_vendor_specific non static
  ...
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Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
 "Lots of activity again this round for I/O performance optimizations
  (per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for vhost + iscsi/target), and the
  addition of new fabric independent features to target-core
  (COMPARE_AND_WRITE + EXTENDED_COPY).

  The main highlights include:

   - Support for iscsi-target login multiplexing across individual
     network portals
   - Generic Per-cpu IDA logic (kent + akpm + clameter)
   - Conversion of vhost to use per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for
     descriptors, SGLs and userspace page pointer list
   - Conversion of iscsi-target + iser-target to use per-cpu IDA
     pre-allocation for descriptors
   - Add support for generic COMPARE_AND_WRITE (AtomicTestandSet)
     emulation for virtual backend drivers
   - Add support for generic EXTENDED_COPY (CopyOffload) emulation for
     virtual backend drivers.
   - Add support for fast memory registration mode to iser-target (Vu)

  The patches to add COMPARE_AND_WRITE and EXTENDED_COPY support are of
  particular significance, which make us the first and only open source
  target to support the full set of VAAI primitives.

  Currently Linux clients are lacking upstream support to actually
  utilize these primitives.  However, with server side support now in
  place for folks like MKP + ZAB working on the client, this logic once
  reserved for the highest end of storage arrays, can now be run in VMs
  on their laptops"

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (50 commits)
  target/iscsi: Bump versions to v4.1.0
  target: Update copyright ownership/year information to 2013
  iscsi-target: Bump default TCP listen backlog to 256
  target: Fix &gt;= v3.9+ regression in PR APTPL + ALUA metadata write-out
  iscsi-target; Bump default CmdSN Depth to 64
  iscsi-target: Remove unnecessary wait_for_completion in iscsi_get_thread_set
  iscsi-target: Add thread_set-&gt;ts_activate_sem + use common deallocate
  iscsi-target: Fix race with thread_pre_handler flush_signals + ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE
  target: remove unused including &lt;linux/version.h&gt;
  iser-target: introduce fast memory registration mode (FRWR)
  iser-target: generalize rdma memory registration and cleanup
  iser-target: move rdma wr processing to a shared function
  target: Enable global EXTENDED_COPY setup/release
  target: Add Third Party Copy (3PC) bit in INQUIRY response
  target: Enable EXTENDED_COPY setup in spc_parse_cdb
  target: Add support for EXTENDED_COPY copy offload emulation
  target: Avoid non-existent tg_pt_gp_mem in target_alua_state_check
  target: Add global device list for EXTENDED_COPY
  target: Make helpers non static for EXTENDED_COPY command setup
  target: Make spc_parse_naa_6h_vendor_specific non static
  ...
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<title>target/iscsi: Bump versions to v4.1.0</title>
<updated>2013-09-11T03:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-05T22:50:24+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<title>target: Update copyright ownership/year information to 2013</title>
<updated>2013-09-11T03:23:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-05T22:29:12+00:00</published>
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Update copyright ownership/year information for target-core,
loopback, iscsi-target, tcm_qla2xx, vhost and iser-target.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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Update copyright ownership/year information for target-core,
loopback, iscsi-target, tcm_qla2xx, vhost and iser-target.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<title>iscsi-target: Bump default TCP listen backlog to 256</title>
<updated>2013-09-11T03:23:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-09T23:24:46+00:00</published>
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This patch bumps the default TCP listen backlog within iscsit_setup_np()
from 5 to 256, in order to reduce the overall latency caused by a small
backlog with 100's of simultaneous login attempts directed to the same
single network portal.

Also add a ISCSIT_TCP_BACKLOG macro in iscsi_target_core.h.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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This patch bumps the default TCP listen backlog within iscsit_setup_np()
from 5 to 256, in order to reduce the overall latency caused by a small
backlog with 100's of simultaneous login attempts directed to the same
single network portal.

Also add a ISCSIT_TCP_BACKLOG macro in iscsi_target_core.h.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>target: Fix &gt;= v3.9+ regression in PR APTPL + ALUA metadata write-out</title>
<updated>2013-09-11T03:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gera Kazakov</name>
<email>gkazakov@msn.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-09T22:47:06+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes a &gt;= v3.9+ regression in __core_scsi3_write_aptpl_to_file()
+ core_alua_write_tpg_metadata() write-out, where a return value of -EIO was
incorrectly being returned upon success.

This bug was originally introduced in:

commit 0e9b10a90f1c30f25dd6f130130240745ab14010
Author: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Date:   Sat Feb 23 15:22:43 2013 -0500

    target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless

However, given that the return of core_scsi3_update_and_write_aptpl()
was not used to determine if a command should be returned with non GOOD
status, this bug was not being triggered in PR logic until v3.11-rc1 by
commit:

commit 459f213ba162bd13e113d6f92a8fa6c780fd67ed
Author: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Date:   Thu May 16 10:41:02 2013 -0700

    target: Allocate aptpl_buf inside update_and_write_aptpl()

So, go ahead and only return -EIO if kernel_write() returned a
negative value.

Reported-by: Gera Kazakov &lt;gkazakov@msn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gera Kazakov &lt;gkazakov@msn.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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This patch fixes a &gt;= v3.9+ regression in __core_scsi3_write_aptpl_to_file()
+ core_alua_write_tpg_metadata() write-out, where a return value of -EIO was
incorrectly being returned upon success.

This bug was originally introduced in:

commit 0e9b10a90f1c30f25dd6f130130240745ab14010
Author: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Date:   Sat Feb 23 15:22:43 2013 -0500

    target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless

However, given that the return of core_scsi3_update_and_write_aptpl()
was not used to determine if a command should be returned with non GOOD
status, this bug was not being triggered in PR logic until v3.11-rc1 by
commit:

commit 459f213ba162bd13e113d6f92a8fa6c780fd67ed
Author: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Date:   Thu May 16 10:41:02 2013 -0700

    target: Allocate aptpl_buf inside update_and_write_aptpl()

So, go ahead and only return -EIO if kernel_write() returned a
negative value.

Reported-by: Gera Kazakov &lt;gkazakov@msn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gera Kazakov &lt;gkazakov@msn.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andy Grover &lt;agrover@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.9+
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>iscsi-target; Bump default CmdSN Depth to 64</title>
<updated>2013-09-11T03:23:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-05T22:04:22+00:00</published>
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This patch bumps the default TA_DEFAULT_CMDSN_DEPTH from 16 -&gt; 64,
which is closer to a sane default for larger pipes @ 10 Gb/sec
with traditional iSCSI, or @ 40/56 Gb/sec Ethernet/Infiniband with
iSCSI Extentions for RDMA.

There is really no downside to increasing this default value for
1 Gb/sec.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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This patch bumps the default TA_DEFAULT_CMDSN_DEPTH from 16 -&gt; 64,
which is closer to a sane default for larger pipes @ 10 Gb/sec
with traditional iSCSI, or @ 40/56 Gb/sec Ethernet/Infiniband with
iSCSI Extentions for RDMA.

There is really no downside to increasing this default value for
1 Gb/sec.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>iscsi-target: Remove unnecessary wait_for_completion in iscsi_get_thread_set</title>
<updated>2013-09-11T03:23:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-07T03:50:36+00:00</published>
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This patch removes an unnecessary wait_for_completion within
iscsi_get_thread_set(), that would wait for 1 second before
trying to obtain an inactive struct iscsi_thread_set from
iscsi_get_ts_from_inactive_list().

Since iscsi_allocate_thread_sets() will already be adding the
newly allocated iscsi_thread_set to the inactive list directly,
there is no need to wait here.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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This patch removes an unnecessary wait_for_completion within
iscsi_get_thread_set(), that would wait for 1 second before
trying to obtain an inactive struct iscsi_thread_set from
iscsi_get_ts_from_inactive_list().

Since iscsi_allocate_thread_sets() will already be adding the
newly allocated iscsi_thread_set to the inactive list directly,
there is no need to wait here.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>iscsi-target: Add thread_set-&gt;ts_activate_sem + use common deallocate</title>
<updated>2013-09-11T03:23:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-05T23:13:41+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the iscsi_thread_set-&gt;[rx,tx]_post_start_comp that
was originally used synchronize startup between rx and tx threads within
a single thread_set.

Instead, use a single -&gt;ts_activate_sem in iscsi_activate_thread_set()
to wait for both processes to awake in the RX/TX pre handlers.

Also, go ahead and refactor thread_set deallocate code into a common
iscsi_deallocate_thread_one(), and update iscsi_deallocate_thread_sets()
and iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets() use this code

v3 changes:
  - Make iscsi_deallocate_thread_one defined as static (Fengguang)

v2 changes:
  - Set ISCSI_THREAD_SET_ACTIVE before calling complete in
    iscsi_activate_thread_set
  - Protect ts-&gt;conn sanity checks with -&gt;ts_state_lock in
    RX/TX pre handlers
  - Add -&gt;ts_activate_sem to save extra context switches per
    iscsi_activate_thread_set() call.
  - Refactor thread_set shutdown into iscsi_deallocate_thread_one()

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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This patch removes the iscsi_thread_set-&gt;[rx,tx]_post_start_comp that
was originally used synchronize startup between rx and tx threads within
a single thread_set.

Instead, use a single -&gt;ts_activate_sem in iscsi_activate_thread_set()
to wait for both processes to awake in the RX/TX pre handlers.

Also, go ahead and refactor thread_set deallocate code into a common
iscsi_deallocate_thread_one(), and update iscsi_deallocate_thread_sets()
and iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets() use this code

v3 changes:
  - Make iscsi_deallocate_thread_one defined as static (Fengguang)

v2 changes:
  - Set ISCSI_THREAD_SET_ACTIVE before calling complete in
    iscsi_activate_thread_set
  - Protect ts-&gt;conn sanity checks with -&gt;ts_state_lock in
    RX/TX pre handlers
  - Add -&gt;ts_activate_sem to save extra context switches per
    iscsi_activate_thread_set() call.
  - Refactor thread_set shutdown into iscsi_deallocate_thread_one()

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>iscsi-target: Fix race with thread_pre_handler flush_signals + ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE</title>
<updated>2013-09-10T23:48:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-07T03:46:50+00:00</published>
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This patch addresses an long standing race in iscsi_[rx,tx]_thread_pre_handler()
use of flush_signals(), and between iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets() setting
ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE before calling kthread_stop().

It addresses the issue by both holding ts_state_lock before calling send_sig()
in iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets(), as well as only calling flush_signals()
when ts-&gt;status != ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE within iscsi_[rx,tx]_thread_pre_handler()
code.

v2 changes:
  - Add explicit complete(&amp;ts-&gt;[rx,tx]_start_comp); before kthread_stop() in
    iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets()
  - Drop left-over send_sig() calls in iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets()
  - Add kthread_should_stop() check in iscsi_signal_thread_pre_handler()

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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This patch addresses an long standing race in iscsi_[rx,tx]_thread_pre_handler()
use of flush_signals(), and between iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets() setting
ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE before calling kthread_stop().

It addresses the issue by both holding ts_state_lock before calling send_sig()
in iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets(), as well as only calling flush_signals()
when ts-&gt;status != ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE within iscsi_[rx,tx]_thread_pre_handler()
code.

v2 changes:
  - Add explicit complete(&amp;ts-&gt;[rx,tx]_start_comp); before kthread_stop() in
    iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets()
  - Drop left-over send_sig() calls in iscsi_deallocate_extra_thread_sets()
  - Add kthread_should_stop() check in iscsi_signal_thread_pre_handler()

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>target: remove unused including &lt;linux/version.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2013-09-10T23:48:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yongjun</name>
<email>yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-29T00:00:48+00:00</published>
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Remove including &lt;linux/version.h&gt; that don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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Remove including &lt;linux/version.h&gt; that don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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