Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] ibmvfc: MQ preparatory locking work | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:38:48 -0500 |
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Tyrel,
> The ibmvfc driver in its current form relies heavily on the > host_lock. This patchset introduces a genric queue with its own queue > lock and sent/free event list locks. This generic queue allows the > driver to decouple the primary queue and future subordinate queues > from the host lock reducing lock contention while also relaxing > locking for submissions and completions to simply the list lock of the > queue in question.
Applied to 5.12/scsi-staging, thanks!
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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