Re: [PATCH RFC v2 02/24] scsi: allocate separate queue for reserved commands

From: John Garry
Date: Thu Apr 23 2020 - 10:13:58 EST


On 07/04/2020 17:30, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 04:00:10PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
My concern is this:

struct scsi_device *scsi_get_host_dev(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
{
[ .. ]
starget = scsi_alloc_target(&shost->shost_gendev, 0, shost->this_id);
[ .. ]

and we have typically:

drivers/scsi/hisi_sas/hisi_sas_v3_hw.c: .this_id = -1,

It's _very_ uncommon to have a negative number as the SCSI target device; in
fact, it _is_ an unsigned int already.

But alright, I'll give it a go; let's see what I'll end up with.

But this shouldn't be exposed anywhere. And I prefer that over having
magic requests/scsi_cmnd that do not have a valid ->device pointer.
.


(just looking at this again)

Hi Christoph,

So how would this look added in scsi_lib.c:

struct scsi_cmnd *scsi_get_reserved_cmd(struct Scsi_Host *shost)
{
struct scsi_cmnd *scmd;
struct request *rq;
struct scsi_device *sdev = scsi_get_host_dev(shost);

if (!sdev)
return NULL;

rq = blk_mq_alloc_request(sdev->request_queue,
REQ_OP_DRV_OUT | REQ_NOWAIT,
BLK_MQ_REQ_RESERVED);
if (IS_ERR(rq)) // fix tidy-up
return NULL;
WARN_ON(rq->tag == -1);
scmd = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(rq);
scmd->request = rq;
scmd->device = sdev;

return scmd;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_get_reserved_cmd);

void scsi_put_reserved_cmd(struct scsi_cmnd *scmd)
{
struct request *rq = blk_mq_rq_from_pdu(scmd);

if (blk_mq_rq_is_reserved(rq)) {
struct scsi_device *sdev = scmd->device;
blk_mq_free_request(rq);
scsi_free_host_dev(sdev);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_put_reserved_cmd);

Not sure if we want a static scsi_device per host, or alloc and free dynamically.

(@Hannes, I also have some proper patches for libsas if you want to add it)

Cheers,
John