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Commit b3f0a1ee authored by Julian Wiedmann's avatar Julian Wiedmann Committed by Martin K. Petersen
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scsi: zfcp: Lift Request Queue tasklet & timer from qdio

The qdio layer currently provides its own infrastructure to scan for
Request Queue completions & to report them to the device driver.  This
comes with several drawbacks - having an async tasklet & timer construct in
qdio introduces additional lifetime complexity, and makes it harder to
integrate them with the rest of the device driver. The timeouts are also
currently hard-coded, and can't be tweaked without affecting other qdio
drivers (ie. qeth).

But due to recent enhancements to the qdio layer, zfcp can actually take
full control of the Request Queue completion processing. It merely needs to
opt-out from the qdio layer mechanisms by setting the scan_threshold to 0,
and then use qdio_inspect_queue() to scan for completions.

So re-implement the tasklet & timer mechanism in zfcp, while initially
copying the scan conditions from qdio's handle_outbound() and
qdio_outbound_tasklet(). One minor behavioural change is that
zfcp_qdio_send() will unconditionally reduce the timeout to 1 HZ, rather
than leaving it at 10 Hz if it was last armed by the tasklet. This just
makes things more consistent. Also note that we can drop a lot of the
accumulated cruft in qdio_outbound_tasklet(), as zfcp doesn't even use PCI
interrupt requests any longer.

This also slightly touches the Response Queue processing, as
qdio_get_next_buffers() will no longer implicitly scan for Request Queue
completions. So complete the migration to qdio_inspect_queue() here as well
and make the tasklet_schedule() visible.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/018d3ddd029f8d6ac00cf4184880288c637c4fd1.1618417667.git.bblock@linux.ibm.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarBenjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJulian Wiedmann <jwi@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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