linux-sg2042/drivers
Ed Cashin 896831f590 aoe: kernel thread handles I/O completions for simple locking
Make the frames the aoe driver uses to track the relationship between bios
and packets more flexible and detached, so that they can be passed to an
"aoe_ktio" thread for completion of I/O.

The frames are handled much like skbs, with a capped amount of
preallocation so that real-world use cases are likely to run smoothly and
degenerate gracefully even under memory pressure.

Decoupling I/O completion from the receive path and serializing it in a
process makes it easier to think about the correctness of the locking in
the driver, especially in the case of a remote MAC address becoming
unusable.

[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: cleanup an allocation a bit]
Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:24 +09:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2012-10-03 23:29:23 -07:00
amba
ata SCSI for-linus on 20121002 2012-10-02 19:01:32 -07:00
atm sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/atm 2012-10-06 03:04:40 +09:00
auxdisplay
base firmware: use 'kernel_read()' to read firmware into kernel buffer 2012-10-04 09:19:02 -07:00
bcma bcma: change delays to follow timers-howto guide 2012-09-28 13:54:02 -04:00
block aoe: kernel thread handles I/O completions for simple locking 2012-10-06 03:05:24 +09:00
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
bus drivers: bus: omap_l3: fixup merge conflict resolution 2012-10-01 19:39:48 -07:00
cdrom
char sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/char 2012-10-06 03:04:41 +09:00
clk spi: Updates for v3.7 2012-10-02 17:26:42 -07:00
clocksource Power management updates for 3.7-rc1 2012-10-02 18:32:35 -07:00
connector Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
cpufreq Power management updates for 3.7-rc1 2012-10-02 18:32:35 -07:00
cpuidle cpuidle: rename function name "__cpuidle_register_driver", v2 2012-09-22 00:38:32 +02:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2012-10-04 09:06:34 -07:00
dca
devfreq
dio
dma drivers/dma/dmaengine.c: lower the priority of 'failed to get' dma channel message 2012-10-06 03:04:36 +09:00
edac Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
eisa
extcon Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
firewire firewire: addendum to address handler RCU conversion 2012-09-28 11:47:42 +02:00
firmware
gpio So this is the LW GPIO patch stack for v3.7: 2012-10-02 16:05:10 -07:00
gpu Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2012-10-03 23:29:23 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
hsi
hv
hwmon ARM: soc: multiplatform enablement 2012-10-01 19:11:38 -07:00
hwspinlock
i2c idr: rename MAX_LEVEL to MAX_IDR_LEVEL 2012-10-06 03:04:56 +09:00
ide sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/ide 2012-10-06 03:04:41 +09:00
idle
iio iio: adc: add new lp8788 adc driver 2012-09-22 10:29:19 +01:00
infiniband idr: rename MAX_LEVEL to MAX_IDR_LEVEL 2012-10-06 03:04:56 +09:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2012-10-02 17:16:10 -07:00
iommu PCI changes for the 3.7 merge window: 2012-10-01 12:05:36 -07:00
irqchip irqchip: fill in empty Kconfig 2012-09-24 10:07:40 -07:00
isdn Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00
leds Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
lguest lguest, x86: handle guest TS bit for lazy/non-lazy fpu host models 2012-09-18 15:52:09 -07:00
macintosh sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/macintosh 2012-10-06 03:04:41 +09:00
md Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
media Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
memory memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Fix reading incorrect register in mc_readl() 2012-09-26 14:04:09 -07:00
memstick
message [SCSI] Fusion MPT: disable pci device when mpt map resoures failed 2012-09-14 17:59:29 +01:00
mfd sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/mfd 2012-10-06 03:04:42 +09:00
misc Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
mmc sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/mmc 2012-10-06 03:04:42 +09:00
mtd The main change is the way we reserve eraseblocks for bad blocks 2012-10-02 20:49:15 -07:00
net rapidio/rionet: rework to support multiple RIO master ports 2012-10-06 03:05:23 +09:00
nfc NFC: Fix missing mutex unlock in pn533_send_cmd_frame_async 2012-09-27 10:47:48 +02:00
nubus
of Devicetree updates for 3.7 2012-10-03 09:44:08 -07:00
oprofile
parisc
parport
pci Features: 2012-10-02 22:09:10 -07:00
pcmcia ARM: soc: multiplatform enablement 2012-10-01 19:11:38 -07:00
pinctrl These are the bulk pinctrl changes for kernel v3.7: 2012-10-02 16:20:20 -07:00
platform sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/platform/x86 2012-10-06 03:04:43 +09:00
pnp
power Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
pps idr: rename MAX_LEVEL to MAX_IDR_LEVEL 2012-10-06 03:04:56 +09:00
ps3
ptp ptp: link the phc device to its parent device 2012-09-22 15:42:38 -04:00
pwm
rapidio rapidio: add destination ID allocation mechanism 2012-10-06 03:05:23 +09:00
regulator Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2012-10-02 09:54:49 -07:00
remoteproc - Remoteproc Recovery - by Fernando Guzman Lugo - when a remote processor 2012-10-04 09:11:57 -07:00
rpmsg
rtc drivers/rtc/rtc-s35390a.c: add wakealarm support for rtc-s35390A rtc chip 2012-10-06 03:05:08 +09:00
s390 SCSI for-linus on 20121002 2012-10-02 19:01:32 -07:00
sbus drivers/sbus/char: removes unnecessary semicolon 2012-09-21 12:08:56 -07:00
scsi sections: fix section conflicts in drivers/scsi 2012-10-06 03:04:44 +09:00
sfi
sh ARM: soc: multiplatform enablement 2012-10-01 19:11:38 -07:00
sn
spi Devicetree updates for 3.7 2012-10-03 09:44:08 -07:00
ssb
staging Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2012-10-03 23:29:23 -07:00
target Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-10-01 09:06:36 -07:00
tc
thermal idr: rename MAX_LEVEL to MAX_IDR_LEVEL 2012-10-06 03:04:56 +09:00
tty Features: 2012-10-02 22:09:10 -07:00
uio
usb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
uwb
vfio switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget 2012-09-26 22:20:08 -04:00
vhost vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool 2012-09-26 21:10:12 -04:00
video drivers/video/backlight/platform_lcd.c: add support for device tree based probe 2012-10-06 03:04:54 +09:00
virt
virtio
vlynq
vme
w1 char/misc driver merge for 3.7-rc1 2012-10-01 12:09:59 -07:00
watchdog ARM: soc: general cleanups 2012-10-01 18:19:05 -07:00
xen Features: 2012-10-02 22:09:10 -07:00
zorro
Kconfig ARM: soc: driver specific changes 2012-10-01 18:46:13 -07:00
Makefile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2012-10-02 13:38:27 -07:00