Re: [PATCH 4.4 34/91] scsi: storvsc: use tagged SRB requests if supported by the device

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Mar 10 2017 - 09:57:14 EST


On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 10:08 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.ÂÂIf anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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> From: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> commit 3cd6d3d9b1abab8dcdf0800224ce26daac24eea2 upstream.
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> Properly set SRB flags when hosting device supports tagged queuing.
> This patch improves the performance on Fiber Channel disks.
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This looks more like a feature/optimisation than a bug fix. Is this
really within the stable rules?

Ben.

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