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Message-ID: <5057F791.8020702@chelsio.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:54:49 +0530
From: Naresh Kumar Inna <naresh@...lsio.com>
To: "JBottomley@...allels.com" <JBottomley@...allels.com>
CC: <naresh@...lsio.com>,
"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
Dimitrios Michailidis <dm@...lsio.com>,
Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Chethan Seshadri <chethan@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: [V4 PATCH 0/8] csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission
Hi James,
Could you please consider merging version V4 of the driver patches, if
you think they are in good shape now?
Thanks,
Naresh.
On 9/12/2012 10:48 PM, Naresh Kumar Inna wrote:
> This is the initial submission of the Chelsio FCoE offload driver (csiostor)
> to the upstream kernel. This driver currently supports FCoE offload
> functionality over Chelsio T4-based 10Gb Converged Network Adapters.
>
> The following patches contain the driver sources for csiostor driver and
> updates to firmware/hardware header files shared between csiostor,
> cxgb4 (Chelsio T4-based NIC driver) and cxgb4vf (Chelsio T4-based Virtual
> Function NIC driver). The csiostor driver is dependent on these
> header updates. These patches have been generated against scsi 'misc' branch.
>
> csiostor is a low level SCSI driver that interfaces with PCI, SCSI midlayer and
> FC transport subsystems. This driver claims the FCoE PCIe function on
> Chelsio Converged Network Adapters. It relies on firmware events for slow path
> operations like discovery, thereby offloading session management. The driver
> programs firmware via Work Request interfaces for fast path I/O offload
> features.
>
> In this version (V4), the patches have been re-arranged to make them bisectable.
>
> Here is the brief description of patches:
> [V4 PATCH 1/8]: Updates to header files shared between cxgb4, cxgb4vf and
> csiostor.
> [V4 PATCH 2/8]: Header files part 1.
> [V4 PATCH 3/8]: Header files part 2.
> [V4 PATCH 4/8]: Driver initialization and Work Request services.
> [V4 PATCH 5/8]: FC transport interfaces and mailbox services.
> [V4 PATCH 6/8]: Local and remote port state tracking functionality.
> [V4 PATCH 7/8]: Interrupt handling and fast path I/O functionality.
> [V4 PATCH 8/8]: Hardware interface, Makefile and Kconfig changes.
>
> Naresh Kumar Inna (8):
> cxgb4/cxgb4vf: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (common header
> updates).
> csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (headers part 1).
> csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (headers part 2).
> csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (sources part 1).
> csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (sources part 2).
> csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (sources part 3).
> csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (sources part 4).
> csiostor: Chelsio FCoE offload driver submission (sources part 5).
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/cxgb4_main.c | 2 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/sge.c | 10 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c | 16 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_msg.h | 1 +
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_regs.h | 69 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4fw_api.h | 104 +-
> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4vf/sge.c | 11 +-
> drivers/scsi/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/scsi/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/Kconfig | 19 +
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/Makefile | 11 +
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_attr.c | 809 +++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_defs.h | 108 +
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c | 4396 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.h | 666 ++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_init.c | 1272 +++++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_init.h | 158 +
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_isr.c | 624 ++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_lnode.c | 2148 +++++++++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_lnode.h | 255 ++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_mb.c | 1769 +++++++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_mb.h | 278 ++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.c | 889 +++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.h | 141 +
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.c | 2560 +++++++++++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.h | 342 ++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_wr.c | 1632 +++++++++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_wr.h | 512 +++
> drivers/scsi/csiostor/t4fw_api_stor.h | 578 +++
> 29 files changed, 19345 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_attr.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_defs.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_hw.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_init.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_init.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_isr.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_lnode.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_lnode.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_mb.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_mb.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_rnode.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_scsi.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_wr.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/csio_wr.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/scsi/csiostor/t4fw_api_stor.h
>
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