Re: [RESEND RFC PATCH] mpt3sas: support target smid for [abort|query] task

[Minwoo Im]

Hi Sreekanth,

> >  drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c | 10 ++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
> b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
> > index b2bb47c14d35..5c7539dae713 100644
> > --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
> > +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
> > @@ -596,15 +596,17 @@ _ctl_set_task_mid(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc,
> struct mpt3_ioctl_command *karg,
> >                 if (priv_data->sas_target->handle != handle)
> >                         continue;
> >                 st = scsi_cmd_priv(scmd);
> > -               tm_request->TaskMID = cpu_to_le16(st->smid);
> > -               found = 1;
> > +               if (tm_request->TaskMID == st->smid) {
> 
> I think it will difficult for the user to find the smid that he want
> to abort. For this user has to enable the scsi logging level and get
> the tag and pass the ioctl with tag +1 value in TaskMID field. And
> hence currently driver will loop over all the smid's and if it fines
> any outstanding smid then it will issue task abort or task query TM
> for this outstanding smid to the HBA firmware.

Sreekanth,

You're exactly right because I have done this kind of abort based on
The scsi logs with logging level configured.

> 
> May be we can do like below,
> * First check whether user provided "TaskMID" is non zero or not. if
> user provided TaskMID is non-zero and if this TaskMID is outstanding
> then driver will issue TaskAbort/QueryTask TM with this TaskMID value

Okay.  If I get it right, you mean to check the given TaskMID(!=0) is
Outstanding or not is by an iteration first.

> else driver will loop over all the smid's and if finds any smid is
> outstanding then it will issue TaskAbort/QueryTask TM with TaskMID
> value set to outstanding smid.

Got your point here.  I'll make a conditional statement for the case
where the TaskMID is zero which is the legacy behaviour.

> With the above logic still legacy application will be supported
> without breaking anything where they provide TaskMID filed as zero.
> And it also allows the user to abort the IO which he wants.

Sure, I'll prepare V2 patch soon.

Thanks Sreekanth,

		Minwoo Im