linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Shlomo Pongratz 659743b02c [SCSI] libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in fast path
Replace the session lock with two locks, a forward lock and
a backwards lock named frwd_lock and back_lock respectively.

The forward lock protects resources that change while sending a
request to the target, such as cmdsn, queued_cmdsn, and allocating
task from the commands' pool with kfifo_out.

The backward lock protects resources that change while processing
a response or in error path, such as cmdsn_exp, cmdsn_max, and
returning tasks to the commands' pool with kfifo_in.

Under a steady state fast-path situation, that is when one
or more processes/threads submit IO to an iscsi device and
a single kernel upcall (e.g softirq) is dealing with processing
of responses without errors, this patch eliminates the contention
between the queuecommand()/request response/scsi_done() flows
associated with iscsi sessions.

Between the forward and the backward locks exists a strict locking
hierarchy. The mutual exclusion zone protected by the forward lock can
enclose the mutual exclusion zone protected by the backward lock but not
vice versa.

For example, in iscsi_conn_teardown or in iscsi_xmit_data when there is
a failure and __iscsi_put_task is called, the backward lock is taken while
the forward lock is still taken. On the other hand, if in the RX path a nop
is to be sent, for example in iscsi_handle_reject or __iscsi_complete_pdu
than the forward lock is released and the backward lock is taken for the
duration of iscsi_send_nopout, later the backward lock is released and the
forward lock is retaken.

libiscsi_tcp uses two kernel fifos the r2t pool and the r2t queue.

The insertion and deletion from these queues didn't corespond to the
assumption taken by the new forward/backwards session locking paradigm.

That is, in iscsi_tcp_clenup_task which belongs to the RX (backwards)
path, r2t is taken out from r2t queue and inserted to the r2t pool.
In iscsi_tcp_get_curr_r2t which belong to the TX (forward) path, r2t
is also inserted to the r2t pool and another r2t is pulled from r2t
queue.

Only in iscsi_tcp_r2t_rsp which is called in the RX path but can requeue
to the TX path, r2t is taken from the r2t pool and inserted to the r2t
queue.

In order to cope with this situation, two spin locks were added,
pool2queue and queue2pool. The former protects extracting from the
r2t pool and inserting to the r2t queue, and the later protects the
extracing from the r2t queue and inserting to the r2t pool.

Signed-off-by: Shlomo Pongratz <shlomop@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
[minor fix up to apply cleanly and compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2014-03-15 10:19:18 -07:00
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acpi Merge branches 'acpi-processor', 'acpi-hotplug', 'acpi-init', 'acpi-pm' and 'acpica' 2014-01-29 11:47:18 +01:00
asm-generic mm: Use ptep/pmdp_set_numa() for updating _PAGE_NUMA bit 2014-02-17 11:19:36 +11:00
clocksource
crypto
drm Merge tag 'ttm-fixes-3.14-2014-02-18' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/linux into drm-fixes 2014-02-19 08:21:26 +10:00
dt-bindings Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2014-01-30 17:07:18 -08:00
keys
kvm
linux [SCSI] hpsa: add HP/3PAR vendor id to pci_ids.h 2014-03-15 10:19:09 -07:00
math-emu math-emu: fix floating-point to integer overflow detection 2014-01-07 18:36:24 -06:00
media [media] saa6588: add support for non-blocking mode 2014-01-07 07:42:19 -02:00
memory
misc
net net: sctp: Fix a_rwnd/rwnd management to reflect real state of the receiver's buffer 2014-02-17 00:16:56 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma IB: Report using RoCE IP based gids in port caps 2014-02-13 14:46:03 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in fast path 2014-03-15 10:19:18 -07:00
sound ARM: SoC board updates for 3.14 2014-01-23 18:48:28 -08:00
target target: Simplify command completion by removing CMD_T_FAILED flag 2014-02-12 15:14:30 -08:00
trace intel_pstate: Remove energy reporting from pstate_sample tracepoint 2014-02-13 02:11:18 +01:00
uapi Merge tag 'vmwgfx-fixes-3.14-2014-02-18' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/linux into drm-fixes 2014-02-19 08:21:02 +10:00
video video: pxa168fb: Cleanup pxa168fb.h file 2014-01-17 10:57:43 +02:00
xen Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-02-14 10:45:18 -08:00
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