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Paul Gortmaker 827509e38e drivers/target: Add module.h to drivers/target files as required.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:31:59 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig f55918fa32 target: clean up the backend interface to caching parameters
Remove the dpo_emulated, fua_write_emulated, fua_read_emulated and
write_cache_emulated methods, and replace them with a simple bitfields in
se_subsystem_api in those cases where they ever returned one.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:21:31 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig df5fa691ce target: make iblock_emulate_sync_cache asynchronous
Do not block the submitting thread when handling a SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command,
but implement it asynchronously by sending the FLUSH command ourself and
calling transport_complete_sync_cache from the completion handler.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:21:29 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig 6193f06e6f target: make the ->get_cdb method optional
The most commonly used file, iblock and rd backends have no use for
a per-task CDB and thus don't need a method to copy it into their
otherwise unused CDB fields.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:21:11 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig 42bf829eee target: Cleanup unused se_task bits
This is a squashed version of the following se_task cleanup patches:

    target: remove the unused task_state_flags field in se_task
    target: remove the unused se_obj_ptr field in se_task
    target: remove the se_dev field in se_task

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:21:05 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig dbbf3e94c2 target: cleanup iblock bio submission
Move the entirely bio allocation, mapping and submission into ->do_task.
This

 a) avoids blocking the I/O submission thread unessecarily, and
 b) simplifies the code greatly

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-24 03:20:43 +00:00
Jesper Juhl 9375b1bfd2 target: Remove unneeded version.h includes
It was pointed out by 'make versioncheck' that some includes of
linux/version.h are not needed in drivers/target/.
This patch removes them.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-10-11 04:10:19 +00:00
Nicholas Bellinger 1d20bb6147 target: ->map_task_SG conversion to ->map_control_SG and ->map_data_SG
This patch breaks up the ->map_task_SG() backend call into two seperate
->map_control_SG() and ->map_data_SG() in order to better address
IBLOCK and pSCSI.  IBLOCK only allocates bios for ->map_data_SG(), and
pSCSI will allocate a struct request for both cases.

This patch fixes incorrect usage of ->map_task_SG() for all se_cmd descriptors
in transport_generic_new_cmd() by moving the call into it's proper location
directly inside of transport_allocate_data_tasks()

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:48 +00:00
Andy Grover 6708bb27bb target: Follow up core updates from AGrover and HCH (round 4)
This patch contains the squashed version of forth round series cleanups
from Andy and Christoph following the post heavy lifting in the preceeding:
'Eliminate usage of struct se_mem' and 'Make all control CDBs scatter-gather'
changes.  This also includes a conversion of target core and the v3.0
mainline fabric modules (loopback and tcm_fc) to use pr_debug and the
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG infrastructure!

These have been squashed into this third and final round for v3.1.

target: Remove ifdeffed code in t_g_process_write
target: Remove direct ramdisk code
target: Rename task_sg_num to task_sg_nents
target: Remove custom debug macros for pr_debug. Use pr_err().
target: Remove custom debug macros in mainline fabrics
target: Set WSNZ=1 in block limits VPD. Abort if WRITE_SAME sectors = 0
target: Remove transport do_se_mem_map callback
target: Further simplify transport_free_pages
target: Redo task allocation return value handling
target: Remove extra parentheses
target: change alloc_task call to take *cdb, not *cmd

(nab: Fix bogus struct file assignments in fd_do_readv and fd_do_writev)

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:48 +00:00
Andy Grover ec98f7825c target: Eliminate usage of struct se_mem
Both backstores and fabrics use arrays of struct scatterlist to describe
data buffers. However TCM used struct se_mems, basically a linked list
of scatterlist entries. We are able to simplify the code by eliminating
this intermediate data structure and just using struct scatterlist[]
throughout.

Also, moved attachment of task to cmd out of transport_generic_get_task
and into allocate_control_task and allocate_data_tasks. The reasoning
is that it's nonintuitive that get_task should automatically add it to
the cmd's task list -- it should just return an allocated, initialized
task. That's all it should do, based on the function's name, so either the
function shouldn't do it, or the name should change to encapsulate the
entire essence of what it does.

(nab: Fix compile warnings in tcm_fc, and make transport_kmap_first_data_page
 honor sg->offset for SGLs from contigious memory with TCM_Loop, and
 fix control se_cmd descriptor memory leak)

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:48 +00:00
Roland Dreier e22a7f0752 target: Implement Block Device Characteristics VPD page
Implement page B1h, Block Device Characteristics, so that we can report
a medium rotation rate of 1 (non-rotating / solid state) if the
is_nonrot device attribute is set; we update the iblock backend to set
this attribute if the underlying Linux block device has its nonrot
flag set.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:47 +00:00
Roland Dreier 21bca31c96 target/iblock: Remove unused iblock_dev members
ibd_depth and ibd_force are used write-only.  Remove them.
ibd_major/minor can be easily retrieved from ibd_bd, so get
rid of them too.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:46 +00:00
Nicholas Bellinger 8f3d14e2b0 target/iblock: Use request_queue->nr_request for se_device defaults
This patch converts iblock_create_virtdevice() to use request_queue->nr_request
for se_dev_limits usage of ->hw_queue_depth and ->queue_depth for individual
struct se_device export.

It also removes the now unused defines for IBLOCK_DEVICE_QUEUE_DEPTH and
IBLOCK_MAX_DEVICE_QUEUE_DEPTH

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:45 +00:00
Andy Grover a1d8b49abd target: Updates from AGrover and HCH (round 3)
This patch contains a squashed version of third round series cleanups,
improvements ,and simplfications from Andy and Christoph ahead of the
heavy lifting between round 3 -> 4 for the target core SGL conversion.

This include cleanups to the main target I/O path and other miscellaneous
updates.

target: Replace custom sg<->buf functions with lib funcs
target: Simplify sector limiting code
target: get_cdb should never return NULL
target: Simplify transport_memcpy_se_mem_read_contig
target: Use assignment rather than increment for t_task_cdbs
target: Don't pass dma_size to generic_get_mem
target: Pass sg with type scatterlist in transport_map_sg_to_mem
target: Move task_sg_num next to task_sg in struct se_task
target: inline struct se_transport_task into struct se_cmd
target: Change name & semantics of transport_get_sectors()
target: Remove unused members of se_cmd
target: Rename se_cmd.t_task_cdbs to t_task_list_num
target: Fix some spelling
target: Remove unused var from transport_generic_do_tmr
target: map_sg_to_mem: return sg_count in return value
target/pscsi: Use min_t for sector limits
target/pscsi: Unused param for pscsi_get_bio()
target: Rename get_cdb_count to allocate_tasks
target: Make transport_generic_new_cmd() available for iscsi-target
target: Remove fabric callback to allocate iovecs
target: Fix transport_generic_new_cmd WRITE comment

(hch: Use __GFP_ZERO usage for alloc_pages() usage)

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:44 +00:00
Andy Grover 5951146dea target: More core cleanups from AGrover (round 2)
This patch contains the squashed version of second round of target core
cleanups and simplifications and Andy and Co.   It also contains a handful
of fixes to address bugs the original series and other minor cleanups.

Here is the condensed shortlog:

target: Remove unneeded casts to void*
target: Rename get_lun_for_{cmd,tmr} to lookup_{cmd,tmr}_lun
target: Make t_task a member of se_cmd, not a pointer
target: Handle functions returning "-2"
target: Use cmd->se_dev over cmd->se_lun->lun_se_dev
target: Embed qr in struct se_cmd
target: Replace embedded struct se_queue_req with a list_head
target: Rename list_heads that are nodes in struct se_cmd to "*_node"
target: Fold transport_device_setup_cmd() into lookup_{tmr,cmd}_lun()
target: Make t_mem_list and t_mem_list_bidi members of t_task
target: Add comment & cleanup transport_map_sg_to_mem()
target: Remove unneeded checks in transport_free_pages()

(Roland: Fix se_queue_req removal leftovers OOPs)
(nab: Fix transport_lookup_tmr_lun failure case)
(nab: Fix list_empty(&cmd->t_task.t_mem_bidi_list) inversion bugs)

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:43 +00:00
Andy Grover e3d6f909ed target: Core cleanups from AGrover (round 1)
This patch contains the squashed version of a number of cleanups and
minor fixes from Andy's initial series (round 1) for target core this
past spring.  The condensed log looks like:

target: use errno values instead of returning -1 for everything
target: Rename transport_calc_sg_num to transport_init_task_sg
target: Fix leak in error path in transport_init_task_sg
target/pscsi: Remove pscsi_get_sh() usage
target: Make two runtime checks into WARN_ONs
target: Remove hba queue depth and convert to spin_lock_irq usage
target: dev->dev_status_queue_obj is unused
target: Make struct se_queue_req.cmd type struct se_cmd *
target: Remove __transport_get_qr_from_queue()
target: Rename se_dev->g_se_dev_list to se_dev_node
target: Remove struct se_global
target: Simplify scsi mib index table code
target: Make dev_queue_obj a member of se_device instead of a pointer
target: remove extraneous returns at end of void functions
target: Ensure transport_dump_vpd_ident_type returns null-terminated str
target: Function pointers don't need to use '&' to be assigned
target: Fix comment in __transport_execute_tasks()
target: Misc style cleanups
target: rename struct pr_reservation_template to pr_reservation
target: Remove #defines that just perform indirection
target: Inline transport_get_task_from_execute_queue()
target: Minor header comment fixes

Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2011-07-22 09:37:43 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 9f34217c84 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (55 commits)
  [SCSI] tcm_loop: Add multi-fabric Linux/SCSI LLD fabric module
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Use polling mode for disable interrupt mailbox completion
  [SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] Retrieve the Caching mode page"
  [SCSI] bnx2fc: IO completion not processed due to missed wakeup
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k6
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: masking required bits of add_fw_options during initialization
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: added new function qla4xxx_relogin_all_devices
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: add support for ql4xsess_recovery_tmo cmd line param
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Add support for ql4xmaxqdepth command line parameter
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: cleanup function qla4xxx_process_ddb_changed
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Prevent other port reinitialization during remove_adapter
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: remove unused ddb flag DF_NO_RELOGIN
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: cleanup DDB relogin logic during initialization
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Do not retry ISP82XX initialization if H/W state is failed
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Do not send mbox command if FW is in failed state
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: cleanup qla4xxx_initialize_ddb_list()
  [SCSI] ses: add subenclosure support
  [SCSI] bnx2fc: Bump version to 1.0.1
  [SCSI] bnx2fc: Remove unnecessary module state checks
  [SCSI] bnx2fc: Fix MTU issue by using static MTU
  ...
2011-03-25 21:06:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6c51038900 Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
  Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
  cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
  cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
  blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
  blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
  cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
  block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
  block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
  block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
  cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
  fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
  block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
  jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
  fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
  mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
  blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
  block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
  block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
  blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
  ...

Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
Nicholas Bellinger 613640e4e1 [SCSI] target: Convert backend ->create_virtdevice() call to return ERR_PTR
This patch converts the target_core_store_dev_enable() -> struct
se_subsystem_api->create_virtdevice() call to return proper ERR_PTR values
back up to configfs logic during backend dependent struct se_device ENABLE
exception conditions.

Along with the change to target_core_configfs.c, this includes converting IBLOCK,
FILEIO, pSCSI, and RAMDISK_* backend subsystem plugins to obtain upper level
PTR_ERR return codes (where available), and return via ERR_PTR during a
*_create_virtdev() failure.

Reported-by: Fubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:24 -05:00
Jesper Juhl 6d1802539d [SCSI] target: Fix match_strdup() memory leaks
match_strdup() dynamically allocates memory and it is the responsabillity
of the caller to free that memory. The following three cases:

drivers/target/target_core_file.c:fd_set_configfs_dev_params()
drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c:iblock_set_configfs_dev_params()
drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c:target_core_dev_pr_store_attr_res_aptpl_metadata()

should be kfree()'ing the allocated memory once it is no longer needed.
It also makes sure to return -ENOMEM if the memory allocation in match_strdup()
should fail.  For target_core_configfs.c, this patch adds kfree()'s around
Opt_initiator_fabric, Opt_initiator_node, Opt_initiator_sid, Opt_sa_res_key,
Opt_target_fabric, and Opt_target_node for the Persistent Reservations
Activate Persistence across Target Power Loss (APTPL=1) token parsing.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:20 -05:00
Jens Axboe 7eaceaccab block: remove per-queue plugging
Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging,
and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that.
So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann 5edc341313 drivers: remove extraneous includes of smp_lock.h
These were missed the last time I cleaned this up
globally, because of code moving around or new code
getting merged.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-03-02 00:02:40 +01:00
Nicholas Bellinger bc66552476 [SCSI] target/iblock: Fix failed bd claim NULL pointer dereference
This patch adds an explict check for struct iblock_dev->ibd_bd in
iblock_free_device() before calling blkdev_put(), which will otherwise hit
the following NULL pointer dereference @ ib_dev->ibd_bd when iblock_create_virtdevice()
fails to claim an already in-use struct block_device via blkdev_get_by_path().

[  112.528578] Target_Core_ConfigFS: Allocated struct se_subsystem_dev: ffff88001e750000 se_dev_su_ptr: ffff88001dd05d70
[  112.534681] Target_Core_ConfigFS: Calling t->free_device() for se_dev_su_ptr: ffff88001dd05d70
[  112.535029] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
[  112.535029] IP: [<ffffffff814987a3>] mutex_lock+0x14/0x35
[  112.535029] PGD 1e5d0067 PUD 1e274067 PMD 0
[  112.535029] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[  112.535029] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.1/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/type
[  112.535029] CPU 0
[  112.535029] Modules linked in: iscsi_target_mod target_core_stgt scsi_tgt target_core_pscsi target_core_file target_core_iblock target_core_mod configfs sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ata_piix mptspi mptscsih libata mptbase [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
[  112.535029]
[  112.535029] Pid: 3345, comm: python2.5 Not tainted 2.6.37+ #1 440BX Desktop Reference Platform/VMware Virtual Platform
[  112.535029] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814987a3>]  [<ffffffff814987a3>] mutex_lock+0x14/0x35
[  112.535029] RSP: 0018:ffff88001e6d7d58  EFLAGS: 00010246
[  112.535029] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000020 RCX: 0000000000000082
[  112.535029] RDX: ffff88001e6d7fd8 RSI: 0000000000000083 RDI: 0000000000000020
[  112.535029] RBP: ffff88001e6d7d68 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[  112.535029] R10: ffff8800000be860 R11: ffff88001f420000 R12: 0000000000000020
[  112.535029] R13: 0000000000000083 R14: ffff88001d809430 R15: ffff88001d8094f8
[  112.535029] FS:  00007ff17ca7d6e0(0000) GS:ffff88001fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  112.535029] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  112.535029] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000001e5d2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[  112.535029] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  112.535029] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  112.535029] Process python2.5 (pid: 3345, threadinfo ffff88001e6d6000, task ffff88001e2d0760)
[  112.535029] Stack:
[  112.535029]  ffff88001e6d7d88 0000000000000000 ffff88001e6d7d98 ffffffff811187fc
[  112.535029]  ffff88001d809430 ffff88001dd05d70 ffff88001e750860 ffff88001e750000
[  112.535029]  ffff88001e6d7db8 ffffffffa00e3757 ffff88001e6d7db8 0000000000000004
[  112.535029] Call Trace:
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffff811187fc>] blkdev_put+0x28/0x107
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffffa00e3757>] iblock_free_device+0x1d/0x36 [target_core_iblock]
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffffa00a319c>] target_core_drop_subdev+0x15f/0x18d [target_core_mod]
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffffa00960db>] client_drop_item+0x25/0x31 [configfs]
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffffa00967b5>] configfs_rmdir+0x1a1/0x223 [configfs]
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffff810fa8cd>] vfs_rmdir+0x7e/0xd3
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffff810fc3be>] do_rmdir+0xa3/0xf4
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffff810fc446>] sys_rmdir+0x11/0x13
[  112.535029]  [<ffffffff81002a92>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  112.535029] Code: 8b 04 25 88 b5 00 00 48 2d d8 1f 00 00 48 89 43 18 31 c0 5e 5b c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 e8 c4 f7 ff ff 48 89 df <3e> ff 0f 79 05 e8 1e ff ff ff 65 48 8b 04 25 88 b5 00 00 48 2d
[  112.535029] RIP  [<ffffffff814987a3>] mutex_lock+0x14/0x35
[  112.535029]  RSP <ffff88001e6d7d58>
[  112.535029] CR2: 0000000000000020
[  132.679636] ---[ end trace 05754bb48eb828f0 ]---

Note it also adds an second explict check for ib_dev->ibd_bio_set before calling
bioset_free() to fix the same possible NULL pointer deference during an early
iblock_create_virtdevice() failure.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-02-12 11:37:00 -06:00
Dan Carpenter 3ae279d259 [SCSI] target: iblock/pscsi claim checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR
blkdev_get_by_path() returns an ERR_PTR() or error and it doesn't return
a NULL.  It looks like this bug would be easy to trigger by mistake.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-02-12 11:29:07 -06:00
Nicholas Bellinger c66ac9db8d [SCSI] target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6
LIO target is a full featured in-kernel target framework with the
following feature set:

High-performance, non-blocking, multithreaded architecture with SIMD
support.

Advanced SCSI feature set:

    * Persistent Reservations (PRs)
    * Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA)
    * Protocol and intra-nexus multiplexing, load-balancing and failover (MC/S)
    * Full Error Recovery (ERL=0,1,2)
    * Active/active task migration and session continuation (ERL=2)
    * Thin LUN provisioning (UNMAP and WRITE_SAMExx)

Multiprotocol target plugins

Storage media independence:

    * Virtualization of all storage media; transparent mapping of IO to LUNs
    * No hard limits on number of LUNs per Target; maximum LUN size ~750 TB
    * Backstores: SATA, SAS, SCSI, BluRay, DVD, FLASH, USB, ramdisk, etc.

Standards compliance:

    * Full compliance with IETF (RFC 3720)
    * Full implementation of SPC-4 PRs and ALUA

Significant code cleanups done by Christoph Hellwig.

[jejb: fix up for new block bdev exclusive interface. Minor fixes from
 Randy Dunlap and Dan Carpenter.]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-01-14 10:12:29 -06:00