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libata-pmp-prep: implement ops->qc_defer()

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Controllers which support PMP have various restrictions on which
combinations of commands are allowed to what number of devices
concurrently.  This patch implements ops->qc_defer() which determines
whether a qc can be issued at the moment or should be deferred.

If the function returns ATA_DEFER_LINK, the qc will be deferred until
a qc completes on the link.  If ATA_DEFER_PORT, until a qc completes
on any link.  The defer conditions are advisory and in general
ATA_DEFER_LINK can be considered as lower priority deferring than
ATA_DEFER_PORT.

ops->qc_defer() replaces fixed ata_scmd_need_defer().  For standard
NCQ/non-NCQ exclusion, ata_std_qc_defer() is implemented.  ahci and
sata_sil24 are converted to use ata_std_qc_defer().

ops->qc_defer() is heavier than the original mechanism because full qc
is prepped before determining to defer it, but various information is
needed to determine defer conditinos and fully translating a qc is the
only way to supply such information in generic manner.

IMHO, this shouldn't cause any noticeable performance issues as

* for most cases deferring occurs rarely (except for NCQ-aware
  cmd-switching PMP)
* translation itself isn't that expensive
* once deferred the command won't be repeated until another command
  completes which usually is a very long time cpu-wise.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Tejun Heo
2007-09-23 13:14:12 +09:00
committed by Jeff Garzik
parent fb7fd61454
commit 31cc23b349
6 changed files with 67 additions and 36 deletions
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include/linux/libata.h
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@ -272,6 +272,10 @@ enum {
/* ering size */
ATA_ERING_SIZE = 32,
/* return values for ->qc_defer */
ATA_DEFER_LINK = 1,
ATA_DEFER_PORT = 2,
/* desc_len for ata_eh_info and context */
ATA_EH_DESC_LEN = 80,
@ -639,6 +643,7 @@ struct ata_port_operations {
void (*data_xfer) (struct ata_device *, unsigned char *, unsigned int, int);
int (*qc_defer) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
void (*qc_prep) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
unsigned int (*qc_issue) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
@ -824,6 +829,7 @@ extern void ata_data_xfer(struct ata_device *adev, unsigned char *buf,
unsigned int buflen, int write_data);
extern void ata_data_xfer_noirq(struct ata_device *adev, unsigned char *buf,
unsigned int buflen, int write_data);
extern int ata_std_qc_defer(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
extern void ata_dumb_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
extern void ata_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
extern void ata_noop_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);