Currently, a percpu_ref undoes percpu_ref_init() automatically by
freeing the allocated percpu area when the percpu_ref is killed.
While seemingly convenient, this has the following niggles.
* It's impossible to re-init a released reference counter without
going through re-allocation.
* In the similar vein, it's impossible to initialize a percpu_ref
count with static percpu variables.
* We need and have an explicit destructor anyway for failure paths -
percpu_ref_cancel_init().
This patch removes the automatic percpu counter freeing in
percpu_ref_kill_rcu() and repurposes percpu_ref_cancel_init() into a
generic destructor now named percpu_ref_exit(). percpu_ref_destroy()
is considered but it gets confusing with percpu_ref_kill() while
"exit" clearly indicates that it's the counterpart of
percpu_ref_init().
All percpu_ref_cancel_init() users are updated to invoke
percpu_ref_exit() instead and explicit percpu_ref_exit() calls are
added to the destruction path of all percpu_ref users.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
"The highlights this round include:
- add support for SCSI Referrals (Hannes)
- add support for T10 DIF into target core (nab + mkp)
- add support for T10 DIF emulation in FILEIO + RAMDISK backends (Sagi + nab)
- add support for T10 DIF -> bio_integrity passthrough in IBLOCK backend (nab)
- prep changes to iser-target for >= v3.15 T10 DIF support (Sagi)
- add support for qla2xxx N_Port ID Virtualization - NPIV (Saurav + Quinn)
- allow percpu_ida_alloc() to receive task state bitmask (Kent)
- fix >= v3.12 iscsi-target session reset hung task regression (nab)
- fix >= v3.13 percpu_ref se_lun->lun_ref_active race (nab)
- fix a long-standing network portal creation race (Andy)"
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (51 commits)
target: Fix percpu_ref_put race in transport_lun_remove_cmd
target/iscsi: Fix network portal creation race
target: Report bad sector in sense data for DIF errors
iscsi-target: Convert gfp_t parameter to task state bitmask
iscsi-target: Fix connection reset hang with percpu_ida_alloc
percpu_ida: Make percpu_ida_alloc + callers accept task state bitmask
iscsi-target: Pre-allocate more tags to avoid ack starvation
qla2xxx: Configure NPIV fc_vport via tcm_qla2xxx_npiv_make_lport
qla2xxx: Enhancements to enable NPIV support for QLOGIC ISPs with TCM/LIO.
qla2xxx: Fix scsi_host leak on qlt_lport_register callback failure
IB/isert: pass scatterlist instead of cmd to fast_reg_mr routine
IB/isert: Move fastreg descriptor creation to a function
IB/isert: Avoid frwr notation, user fastreg
IB/isert: seperate connection protection domains and dma MRs
tcm_loop: Enable DIF/DIX modes in SCSI host LLD
target/rd: Add DIF protection into rd_execute_rw
target/rd: Add support for protection SGL setup + release
target/rd: Refactor rd_build_device_space + rd_release_device_space
target/file: Add DIF protection support to fd_execute_rw
target/file: Add DIF protection init/format support
...
lun->lun_ref is also initialized in core_tpg_post_addlun, so it doesn't
need to be done in core_tpg_setup_virtual_lun0.
(nab: Drop left-over percpu_ref_cancel_init in failure path)
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
"pre" is really an allocation function. The only time it isn't called is
for virtual_lun0, which is statically allocated. Renaming that to "alloc"
lets the other function not need to be "post", and just be called
core_tpg_add_lun.
(nab: fix minor applying fuzz in core_tpg_setup_virtual_lun0)
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Commit 04f3b31bff ("iscsi-target: Convert iscsi_session statistics to
atomic_long_t") removed the updating of these fields in iscsi (the only
fabric driver that ever touched these counters), and the core has no way
to report or otherwise use the values. Remove the last remnants of
these counters.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Now with percpu refcounting for se_lun in place, go ahead and drop
the legacy per se_cmd accounting for se_lun shutdown.
This includes __transport_clear_lun_from_sessions(), the associated
transport_lun_wait_for_tasks() logic, along with a handful of now
unused se_cmd structure members and ->transport_state bits.
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch adds percpu refcounting for se_lun access that allows the
association of an se_lun + se_cmd in transport_lookup_cmd_lun() to
occur without an extra list_head for tracking outstanding I/O during
se_lun shutdown.
This effectively changes se_lun shutdown logic to wait for outstanding
I/O percpu references to complete in transport_lun_remove_cmd() using
se_lun->lun_ref_comp, instead of explicitly draining the per se_lun
command list and waiting for individual se_cmd descriptor processing
to complete.
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Export symbol core_tpg_check_initiator_node_acl and move prototype from the
private drivers/target/target_core_internal.h to the public
include/target/target_core_fabric.h
Signed-off-by: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Update copyright ownership/year information for target-core,
loopback, iscsi-target, tcm_qla2xx, vhost and iser-target.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
'se_tpg->tpg_lun_list' is malloced in core_tpg_register() and should be freed
before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory
leak.
'se_tpg' is malloced out of this function, and will be freed if we return error, so
remove free for 'se_tpg'.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch fixes a bug in core_tpg_check_initiator_node_acl() ->
core_tpg_get_initiator_node_acl() where a dynamically created
se_node_acl generated during session login would be skipped during
subsequent lookup due to the '!acl->dynamic_node_acl' check, causing
a new se_node_acl to be created with a duplicate ->initiatorname.
This would occur when a fabric endpoint was configured with
TFO->tpg_check_demo_mode()=1 + TPF->tpg_check_demo_mode_cache()=1
preventing the release of an existing se_node_acl during se_session
shutdown.
Also, drop the unnecessary usage of core_tpg_get_initiator_node_acl()
within core_dev_init_initiator_node_lun_acl() that originally
required the extra '!acl->dynamic_node_acl' check, and just pass
the configfs provided se_node_acl pointer instead.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Thanks for reviews, looking a lot better.
---- 8< ----
Initiator access config could be easier. The way other storage vendors
have addressed this is to support initiator groups: the admin adds
initiator WWNs to the group, and then LUN permissions can be granted for
the entire group at once.
Instead of changing ktarget's configfs interface, this patch keeps
the configfs interface per-initiator-wwn and just adds a 'tag' field
for each. This should be enough for user tools like targetcli to group
initiator ACLs and sync their configurations.
acl_tag is not used internally, but needs to be kept in configfs so that
all user tools can avoid dependencies on each other.
Code tested to work, although userspace pieces still to be implemented.
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch adds [dev,lun]_link_magic value assignment + checks within generic
target_fabric_port_link() and target_fabric_mappedlun_link() code to ensure
destination config_item *target_item sent from configfs_symlink() ->
config_item_operations->allow_link() is the underlying se_device->dev_group
and se_lun->lun_group that we expect to symlink.
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
v2: Use correct target_core_stat.c 2006 copyright year
v3: Drop extra unnessary legal verbage from header (hch)
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Correct spelling typo in printk and comment within drivers/target.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Code was almost entirely divided based on value of bool param "enable".
Split it into two functions.
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Pull scsi-target changes from Nicholas Bellinger:
"There has been lots of work in existing code in a number of areas this
past cycle. The major highlights have been:
* Removal of transport_do_task_sg_chain() from core + fabrics
(Roland)
* target-core: Removal of se_task abstraction from target-core and
enforce hw_max_sectors for pSCSI backends (hch)
* Re-factoring of iscsi-target tx immediate/response queues (agrover)
* Conversion of iscsi-target back to using target core memory
allocation logic (agrover)
We've had one last minute iscsi-target patch go into for-next to
address a nasty regression bug related to the target core allocation
logic conversion from agrover that is not included in friday's
linux-next build, but has been included in this series.
On the new fabric module code front for-3.5, here is a brief status
update for the three currently in flight this round:
* usb-gadget target driver:
Sebastian Siewior's driver for supporting usb-gadget target mode
operation. This will be going out as a separate PULL request from
target-pending/usb-target-merge with subsystem maintainer ACKs. There
is one minor target-core patch in this series required to function.
* sbp ieee-1394/firewire target driver:
Chris Boot's driver for supportting the Serial Block Protocol (SBP)
across IEEE-1394 Firewire hardware. This will be going out as a
separate PULL request from target-pending/sbp-target-merge with two
additional drivers/firewire/ patches w/ subsystem maintainer ACKs.
* qla2xxx LLD target mode infrastructure changes + tcm_qla2xxx:
The Qlogic >= 24xx series HW target mode LLD infrastructure patch-set
and tcm_qla2xxx fabric driver. Support for FC target mode using
qla2xxx LLD code has been officially submitted by Qlogic to James
below, and is currently outstanding but not yet merged into
scsi.git/for-next..
[PATCH 00/22] qla2xxx: Updates for scsi "misc" branch
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg59350.html
Note there are *zero* direct dependencies upon this for-next series
for the qla2xxx LLD target + tcm_qla2xxx patches submitted above, and
over the last days the target mode team has been tracking down an
tcm_qla2xxx specific active I/O shutdown bug that appears to now be
almost squashed for 3.5-rc-fixes."
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (47 commits)
iscsi-target: Fix iov_count calculation bug in iscsit_allocate_iovecs
iscsi-target: remove dead code in iscsi_check_valuelist_for_support
target: Handle ATA_16 passthrough for pSCSI backend devices
target: Add MI_REPORT_TARGET_PGS ext. header + implict_trans_secs attribute
target: Fix MAINTENANCE_IN service action CDB checks to use lower 5 bits
target: add support for the WRITE_VERIFY command
target: make target_put_session void
target: cleanup transport_execute_tasks()
target: Remove max_sectors device attribute for modern se_task less code
target: lock => unlock typo in transport_lun_wait_for_tasks
target: Enforce hw_max_sectors for SCF_SCSI_DATA_SG_IO_CDB
target: remove the t_se_count field in struct se_cmd
target: remove the t_task_cdbs_ex_left field in struct se_cmd
target: remove the t_task_cdbs_left field in struct se_cmd
target: remove struct se_task
target: move the state and execute lists to the command
target: simplify command to task linkage
target: always allocate a single task
target: replace ->execute_task with ->execute_cmd
target: remove the task_sectors field in struct se_task
...
This patch removes some potentially problematic legacy code within
core_clear_initiator_node_from_tpg() that was originally intended to
release left over se_lun_acl setup during dynamic NodeACL+MappedLUN
generate when running with TPG demo-mode operation.
Since we now only ever expect to allocate and release se_lun_acl from
within target_core_fabric_configfs.c:target_fabric_make_mappedlun() and
target_fabric_drop_mappedlun() context respectively, this code for
demo-mode release is incorrect and needs to be removed.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This was used at one time as a hack by FILEIO backend registration to
allow a struct block_device that was claimed with blkdev_get (by a local
filesystem mount for example) to be exported as read-only (SCSI WP=1).
Since FILEIO backend registration will no longer attempt to obtain
exclusive access to an underlying struct block_device here, this flag is
now obsolete.
Reported-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Get rid of a bunch of write-only variables. In a number of cases I
suspect actual bugs to be present, so I left all of those for a second
look.
(nab: fix lio-core patch fuzz)
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Turns an order-8 allocation into slab-sized ones, thereby preventing
allocation failures with memory fragmentation.
This likely saves memory as well, as the slab allocator can pack objects
more tightly than the buddy allocator.
(nab: Fix lio-core patch fuzz)
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Turns an order-10 allocation into slab-sized ones, thereby preventing
allocation failures with memory fragmentation.
This likely saves memory as well, as the slab allocator can pack objects
more tightly than the buddy allocator.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch converts core_tpg_del_initiator_node_acl() shutdown from configfs
context to use se_node_acl->acl_kref and ->acl_free_comp in order to wait for
outstanding fabric callbacks to complete via transport_deregister_session()
callbacks before waking ->acl_free_comp from the last ->acl_kref put.
It also changes core_tpg_del_initiator_node_acl() to setup a local sess_list
with target_get_session() + acl->acl_stop = 1 for active sessions that will
be shutdown, and changes transport_deregister_session_configfs() to check
for ->acl_stop usage.
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch adds se_node_acl->acl_kref for use with ->acl_free_comp
during explict se_node_acl release. It adds kref_init() during
se_node_acl setup, kref_get() during __transport_register_session()
-> target_put_nacl() with existing transport_deregister_session()
fabric callback usage.
It also moves transport_free_session() to release *se_sess memory
after target_put_nacl() execution in transport_deregister_session()
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Add se_node_acl->acl_free_comp for NodeACL release path to wait for outstanding
fabric session shutdown to complete in transport_deregister_session() before
finishing NodeACL release from configfs process context.
Also make transport_deregister_session() clear the comp_nacl bit
to skip se_node_acl->acl_free_comp completion for dynamically generated
NodeACL during fabric session shutdown.
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
- core_tpg_pre_addlun()
returns always ERR_PTR() or the pointer, never NULL. The additional
check for NULL in core_dev_add_lun() is not required.
- core_tpg_pre_dellun()
returns always ERR_PTR() or the pointer, never NULL. The check for NULL
in core_dev_del_lun() is wrong. The third argument (int *) is never
used, remove it.
- core_dev_add_lun()
returns always NULL or the pointer, never ERR_PTR. The check for
IS_ERR() is not required.
(nab: Convert core_dev_add_lun() use err.h macros for failure
handling to be consistent with the rest of target_core_fabric_configfs.c
callers)
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This reorganized the headers under include/target into:
- target_core_base.h stays as is with all target-wide data stuctures and defines
- target_core_backend.h contains the whole interface to I/O backends
- target_core_fabric.h contains the whole interface to fabric modules
Except for those only the various configfs macro headers stay around.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Create a new headers, drivers/target/target_core_internal.h that is supposed
to hold all target_core-internal prototypes. Move all non-exported includes
from include/target to it, and merge the smaller prototype-only includes
inside drivers/target into it as well. Mark functions that were found to
not be called outside their implementation file static.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
With qla2xxx, acl_node_lock is taken inside qla2xxx's hardware_lock,
which is taken in hardirq context. This means acl_node_lock must become
an IRQ-disabling lock; in particular this fixes lockdep warnings along
the lines of
======================================================
[ INFO: HARDIRQ-safe -> HARDIRQ-unsafe lock order detected ]
(&(&se_tpg->acl_node_lock)->rlock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffffa026f872>] transport_deregister_session+0x92/0x140 [target_core_mod]
and this task is already holding:
(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffffa017c5e7>] qla_tgt_stop_phase1+0x57/0x2c0 [qla2xxx]
which would create a new lock dependency:
(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock){-.-...} -> (&(&se_tpg->acl_node_lock)->rlock){+.....}
but this new dependency connects a HARDIRQ-irq-safe lock:
(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock){-.-...}
to a HARDIRQ-irq-unsafe lock:
(&(&se_tpg->acl_node_lock)->rlock){+.....}
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
This patch changes target_emulate_inquiry_std() to set the 'not connected'
(0x35) bit in standard INQUIRY response data when we are processing a
request to a virtual LUN=0 mapping from struct se_device *g_lun0_dev that
have been setup for us in transport_lookup_cmd_lun().
This addresses an issue where qla2xxx FC clients need to be able
to create demo-mode I_T FC Nexuses by default, but should not be
exposing the default set of TPG LUNs to all FC clients. This includes
adding an new optional target_core_fabric_ops->tpg_check_demo_mode_login_only()
caller to allow demo_mode nexuses to skip the old default of bulding
a demo-mode MappedLUNs list via core_tpg_add_node_to_devs().
(roland: Add missing tpg_check_demo_mode_login_only check in core_dev_add_lun)
Reported-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@risingtidesystems.com>
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>
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>
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>
This patch removes the legacy procfs based target_core_mib.c code,
and moves the necessary scsi_index_tables functions and defines into
target_core_transport.c and target_core_base.h code to allow existing
fabric independent statistics to function.
This includes the removal of a handful of 'atomic_t mib_ref_count'
counters used in struct se_node_acl, se_session and se_hba to prevent
removal while using seq_list procfs walking logic.
[jejb: fix up compile failures]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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>
Tejun Heo