The task_collector mode (or "latency_injector", (C) Dan Willians) is an
optional I/O path in libsas that queues up scsi commands instead of
directly sending it to the hardware. It generall increases latencies
to in the optiomal case slightly reduce mmio traffic to the hardware.
Only the obsolete aic94xx driver and the mvsas driver allowed to use
it without recompiling the kernel, and most drivers didn't support it
at all.
Remove the giant blob of code to allow better optimizations for scsi-mq
in the future.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Arrange for the deallocation of a struct domain_device object when it no
longer has:
1/ any children
2/ references by any scsi_targets
3/ references by a lldd
The comment about domain_device lifetime in
Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt is stale as it appears mainline never had
a version of a struct domain_device that was registered as a kobject.
We now manage domain_device reference counts on behalf of external
agents.
Reviewed-by: Jack Wang <jack_wang@usish.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
+words starting with the letter 'T'.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
This is the end point of the separate aic94xx driver based on the
original driver and transport class from Luben Tuikov
<ltuikov@yahoo.com>
The log of the separate development is:
Alexis Bruemmer:
o aic94xx: fix hotplug/unplug for expanderless systems
o aic94xx: disable split completion timer/setting by default
o aic94xx: wide port off expander support
o aic94xx: remove various inline functions
o aic94xx: use bitops
o aic94xx: remove queue comment
o aic94xx: remove sas_common.c
o aic94xx: sas remove depot's
o aic94xx: use available list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse()
o aic94xx: sas header file merge
James Bottomley:
o aic94xx: fix TF_TMF_NO_CTX processing
o aic94xx: convert to request_firmware interface
o aic94xx: fix hotplug/unplug
o aic94xx: add link error counts to the expander phys
o aic94xx: add transport class phy reset capability
o aic94xx: remove local_attached flag
o Remove README
o Fixup Makefile variable for libsas rename
o Rename sas->libsas
o aic94xx: correct return code for sas_discover_event
o aic94xx: use parent backlink port
o aic94xx: remove channel abstraction
o aic94xx: fix routing algorithms
o aic94xx: add backlink port
o aic94xx: fix cascaded expander properties
o aic94xx: fix sleep under lock
o aic94xx: fix panic on module removal in complex topology
o aic94xx: make use of the new sas_port
o rename sas_port to asd_sas_port
o Fix for eh_strategy_handler move
o aic94xx: move entirely over to correct transport class formulation
o remove last vestages of sas_rphy_alloc()
o update for eh_timed_out move
o Preliminary expander support for aic94xx
o sas: remove event thread
o minor warning cleanups
o remove last vestiges of id mapping arrays
o Further updates
o Convert aic94xx over entirely to the transport class end device and
o update aic94xx/sas to use the new sas transport class end device
o [PATCH] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
o Add missing completion removal from prior patch
o [PATCH] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
o Build fixes from akpm
Jeff Garzik:
o [scsi aic94xx] Remove ->owner from PCI info table
Luben Tuikov:
o initial aic94xx driver
Mike Anderson:
o aic94xx: fix panic on module insertion
o aic94xx: stub out SATA_DEV case
o aic94xx: compile warning cleanups
o aic94xx: sas_alloc_task
o aic94xx: ref count update
o aic94xx nexus loss time value
o [PATCH] aic94xx: driver assertion in non-x86 BIOS env
Randy Dunlap:
o libsas: externs not needed
Robert Tarte:
o aic94xx: sequence patch - fixes SATA support
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
