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2016-01-07cxlflash: Fix to avoid virtual LUN failover failureMatthew R. Ochs
Applications which use virtual LUN's that are backed by a physical LUN over both adapter ports may experience an I/O failure in the event of a link loss (e.g. cable pull). Virtual LUNs may be accessed through one or both ports of the adapter. This access is encoded in the translation entries that comprise the virtual LUN and used by the AFU for load-balancing I/O and handling failover scenarios. In a link loss scenario, even though the AFU is able to maintain connectivity to the LUN, it is up to the application to retry the failed I/O. When applications are unaware of the virtual LUN's underlying topology, they are unable to make a sound decision of when to retry an I/O and therefore are forced to make their reaction to a failed I/O absolute. The result is either a failure to retry I/O or increased latency for scenarios where a retry is pointless. To remedy this scenario, provide feedback back to the application on virtual LUN creation as to which ports the LUN may be accessed. LUN's spanning both ports are candidates for a retry in a presence of an I/O failure. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Manoj Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2015-08-27cxlflash: Virtual LUN supportMatthew R. Ochs
Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this adapter. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
2015-08-27cxlflash: Superpipe supportMatthew R. Ochs
Add superpipe supporting infrastructure to device driver for the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows userspace applications to take advantage of the accelerated I/O features that this adapter provides and bypass the traditional filesystem stack. Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong <wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
2013-03-01[SCSI] Merge tag 'fcoe-02-19-13' into for-linusJames Bottomley
FCoE Updates for 3.9 Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2013-01-07UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/scsi/fcDavid Howells
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-12-19UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/scsiDavid Howells
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-02UAPI: (Scripted) Set up UAPI Kbuild filesDavid Howells
Set up empty UAPI Kbuild files to be populated by the header splitter. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>