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authorVasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>2009-02-27 10:56:27 -0800
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>2009-03-10 09:09:21 -0500
commitc826a3145736e3baabebccfd0aecfbb6dae059f2 (patch)
tree4c156c85a8eec039973b369cff052206da128cbe /include/scsi/libfcoe.h
parente904158159e9812d06646767b7c81846dc3b05e6 (diff)
downloadlinux-c826a3145736e3baabebccfd0aecfbb6dae059f2.tar.gz
[SCSI] fcoe: Out of order tx frames was causing several check condition SCSI status
frames followed by these errors in log.

	[sdp] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
	[sdp] Sense Key : Aborted Command [current]
	[sdp] Add. Sense: Data phase error

This was causing some test apps to exit due to write failure under heavy
load.

This was due to a race around adding and removing tx frame skb in
fcoe_pending_queue, Chris Leech helped me to find that brief unlocking
period when pulling skb from fcoe_pending_queue in various contexts
(fcoe_watchdog and fcoe_xmit) and then adding skb back into fcoe_pending_queue
up on a failed fcoe_start_io could change skb/tx frame order in
fcoe_pending_queue. Thanks Chris.

This patch allows only single context to pull skb from fcoe_pending_queue
at any time to prevent above described ordering issue/race by use of
fcoe_pending_queue_active flag.

This patch simplified fcoe_watchdog with modified fcoe_check_wait_queue by
use of FCOE_LOW_QUEUE_DEPTH instead previously used several conditionals
to clear and set lp->qfull.

I think FCOE_MAX_QUEUE_DEPTH with FCOE_LOW_QUEUE_DEPTH  will work better
in re/setting lp->qfull and these could be fine tuned for performance.

Signed-off-by: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/scsi/libfcoe.h')
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diff --git a/include/scsi/libfcoe.h b/include/scsi/libfcoe.h
index f43d3833a7a8..941818f29f59 100644
--- a/include/scsi/libfcoe.h
+++ b/include/scsi/libfcoe.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct fcoe_softc {
 	struct net_device *phys_dev;		/* device with ethtool_ops */
 	struct packet_type  fcoe_packet_type;
 	struct sk_buff_head fcoe_pending_queue;
+	u8	fcoe_pending_queue_active;
 
 	u8 dest_addr[ETH_ALEN];
 	u8 ctl_src_addr[ETH_ALEN];