Re: [PATCH v4] libata: Improve ATA queued command allocation

From: Damien Le Moal
Date: Mon Apr 11 2022 - 08:26:26 EST


On 4/8/22 18:04, John Garry wrote:
> Improve ATA queued command allocation as follows:
>
> - For attaining a qc tag for a SAS host we need to allocate a bit in
> ata_port.sas_tag_allocated bitmap.
>
> However we already have a unique tag per device in range
> [0, ATA_MAX_QUEUE -1] in the scsi cmnd budget token, so just use that
> instead.
>
> - It is a bit pointless to have ata_qc_new_init() in libata-core.c since it
> pokes scsi internals, so inline it in ata_scsi_qc_new() (in
> libata-scsi.c). Also update Doc accordingly.
>
> - Use standard SCSI helpers set_host_byte() and set_status_byte() in
> ata_scsi_qc_new().
>
> Christoph Hellwig originally contributed the change to inline
> ata_qc_new_init().
>
> Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Applied to for-5.19. Thanks !

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research