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authorEd Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>2012-10-04 17:16:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-06 03:05:24 +0900
commit896831f5909e2733c13c9cb13a1a215f10c3eaa8 (patch)
tree9541075df9b3703b7ea8853de619fa98c4be1456 /drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c
parentaoe: for performance support larger packet payloads (diff)
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aoe: kernel thread handles I/O completions for simple locking
Make the frames the aoe driver uses to track the relationship between bios and packets more flexible and detached, so that they can be passed to an "aoe_ktio" thread for completion of I/O. The frames are handled much like skbs, with a capped amount of preallocation so that real-world use cases are likely to run smoothly and degenerate gracefully even under memory pressure. Decoupling I/O completion from the receive path and serializing it in a process makes it easier to think about the correctness of the locking in the driver, especially in the case of a remote MAC address becoming unusable. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: cleanup an allocation a bit] Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c
index 07878076e43c..000eff2b53a8 100644
--- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c
+++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c
@@ -142,7 +142,8 @@ aoenet_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ifp, struct packet_type *pt,
switch (h->cmd) {
case AOECMD_ATA:
- aoecmd_ata_rsp(skb);
+ /* ata_rsp may keep skb for later processing or give it back */
+ skb = aoecmd_ata_rsp(skb);
break;
case AOECMD_CFG:
aoecmd_cfg_rsp(skb);
@@ -152,6 +153,9 @@ aoenet_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ifp, struct packet_type *pt,
break; /* don't complain about vendor commands */
printk(KERN_INFO "aoe: unknown cmd %d\n", h->cmd);
}
+
+ if (!skb)
+ return 0;
exit:
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
return 0;