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qla2xxx: Add framework for async fabric discovery
authorQuinn Tran <quinn.tran@cavium.com>
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:12:24 +0000 (19:42 +0530)
committerBrian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Thu, 2 Nov 2017 18:14:19 +0000 (14:14 -0400)
commitf7ad85fc5a3839a5fc87537c016e11179c49c9bb
treebf03598fc9f5e5fe20bf3e4fc9766e987c470771
parent982f7519ca99bc887a46ebbde916c6016fd464ef
qla2xxx: Add framework for async fabric discovery

Orabug: 2684419726923029

Currently code performs a full scan of the fabric for
every RSCN. Its an expensive process in a noisy large SAN.

This patch optimizes expensive fabric discovery process by
scanning switch for the affected port when RSCN is received.

Currently Initiator Mode code makes login/logout decision without
knowledge of target mode. This causes driver and firmware to go
out-of-sync. This framework synchronizes both initiator mode
personality and target mode personality in making login/logout
decision.

This patch adds following capabilities in the driver

- Send Notification Acknowledgement asynchronously.
- Update session/fcport state asynchronously.
- Create a session or fcport struct asynchronously.
- Send GNL asynchronously. The command will ask FW to
  provide a list of FC Port entries FW knows about.
- Send GPDB asynchronously. The command will ask FW to
  provide detail data of an FC Port FW knows about or
  perform ADISC to verify the state of the session.
- Send GPNID asynchronously. The command will ask switch
  to provide WWPN for provided NPort ID.
- Send GPSC asynchronously. The command will ask switch
  to provide registered port speed for provided WWPN.
- Send GIDPN asynchronously. The command will ask the
  switch to provide Nport ID for provided WWPN.
- In driver unload path, schedule all session for deletion
  and wait for deletion to complete before allowing driver
  unload to proceed.

Signed-off-by: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>
[ bvanassche: fixed spelling in patch description ]
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@oracle.com>
13 files changed:
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_def.h
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_fw.h
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gbl.h
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_inline.h
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_iocb.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_isr.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_mbx.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.c
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_target.h