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aoe: kernel thread handles I/O completions for simple locking
authorEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:22:22 +0000 (10:22 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 5 Oct 2012 04:01:42 +0000 (14:01 +1000)
commitdb6a53bd7736d76d9b53366ba72e01488ea1f210
tree20d51c42a41f29768f7006e77ac5068e7fbb71b1
parent533d549d2f746d0bcbbb5a82ea771e0161e35832
aoe: kernel thread handles I/O completions for simple locking

Make the frames the aoe driver uses to track the relationship between bios
and packets more flexible and detached, so that they can be passed to an
"aoe_ktio" thread for completion of I/O.

The frames are handled much like skbs, with a capped amount of
preallocation so that real-world use cases are likely to run smoothly and
degenerate gracefully even under memory pressure.

Decoupling I/O completion from the receive path and serializing it in a
process makes it easier to think about the correctness of the locking in
the driver, especially in the case of a remote MAC address becoming
unusable.

Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/block/aoe/aoe.h
drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c
drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c
drivers/block/aoe/aoedev.c
drivers/block/aoe/aoemain.c
drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c