Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] ibmvfc: MQ preparatory locking work

From: Martin K. Petersen
Date: Thu Jan 07 2021 - 22:42:03 EST



Tyrel,

> The ibmvfc driver in its current form relies heavily on the
> host_lock. This patchset introduces a genric queue with its own queue
> lock and sent/free event list locks. This generic queue allows the
> driver to decouple the primary queue and future subordinate queues
> from the host lock reducing lock contention while also relaxing
> locking for submissions and completions to simply the list lock of the
> queue in question.

Applied to 5.12/scsi-staging, thanks!

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering