scsi: target/core: Use system workqueues for TMF
authorBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tue, 27 Nov 2018 23:51:59 +0000 (15:51 -0800)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Sat, 8 Dec 2018 02:20:07 +0000 (21:20 -0500)
commitdb5b21a24e01d35495014076700efa02d6dcbb68
tree4f292075ebba7d5f4e1ed85f692ec608809a1de5
parentad669505c4e9db9af9faeb5c51aa399326a80d91
scsi: target/core: Use system workqueues for TMF

A quote from SAM-5: "The order in which task management requests are
processed is not specified by the SCSI architecture model.  The SCSI
architecture model does not require in-order delivery of such task
management requests or processing by the task manager in the order
received. To guarantee the processing order of task management requests
referencing sent to a specific logical unit, an application client should
not have more than one such task management request pending to that logical
unit." This means that it is safe to use the system workqueues instead of
tmr_wq for processing TMFs. An intended side effect of this patch is that
it enables concurrent processing of TMFs.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Cc: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/target/target_core_device.c
drivers/target/target_core_transport.c
include/target/target_core_base.h