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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2016-04-12 17:16:54 +0200
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2016-07-12 23:16:31 -0400
commit4b9bc86d5a999e344098303882d6395d39e36c13 (patch)
tree64a1ac75653772c9240cf840be8de26bcb69fdda /Documentation
parent49a75815e996a8719463090d9666bd120d9bae91 (diff)
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: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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