tcmu: don't block submitting context for block waits
This patch has tcmu internally queue cmds if its ring buffer is full. It also makes the TCMU_GLOBAL_MAX_BLOCKS limit a hint instead of a hard limit, so we do not have to add any new locks/atomics in the main IO path except when IO is not running. This fixes the following bugs: 1. We cannot sleep from the submitting context because it might be called from a target recv context. This results in transport level commands timing out. For example if the ring is full, we would sleep, and a iscsi initiator would send a iscsi ping/nop which times out because the target's recv thread is sleeping here. 2. Devices were not fairly scheduled to run when they hit the global limit so they could time out waiting for ring space while others got run. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
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