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Commit 4b9bc86d authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Martin K. Petersen
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fcoe: convert to kworker



The driver creates its own per-CPU threads which are updated based on
CPU hotplug events. It is also possible to use kworkers and remove some
of the kthread infrastrucure.

The code checked ->thread to decide if there is an active per-CPU
thread. By using the kworker infrastructure this is no longer
possible (or required). The thread pointer is saved in `kthread' instead
of `thread' so anything trying to use thread is caught by the
compiler. Currently only the bnx2fc driver is using struct fcoe_percpu_s
and the kthread member.

After a CPU went offline, we may still enqueue items on the "offline"
CPU. This isn't much of a problem. The work will be done on a random
CPU. The allocated crc_eof_page page won't be cleaned up. It is probably
expected that the CPU comes up at some point so it should not be a
problem. The crc_eof_page memory is released of course once the module
is removed.

This patch was only compile-tested due to -ENODEV.

Cc: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: fcoe-devel@open-fcoe.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
parent 49a75815
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