FC-Tape provides additional link level error recovery, and is
highly recommended for tape devices. It will only be turned on for
a given target if the target supports it.
Without this setting, we default to whatever FC-Tape setting is in
NVRAM on the card.
This can be overridden by setting the following loader tunable, for
example for isp0:
hint.isp.0.nofctape=1
sys/conf/options:
Add a new kernel config option, ISP_FCTAPE_OFF, that
defaults the FC-Tape configuration to off.
sys/dev/isp/isp_pci.c:
If ISP_FCTAPE_OFF is defined, turn off FC-Tape. Otherwise,
turn it on if the card supports it.
share/man/man4/isp.4:
Add a description of FC-Tape to the isp(4) man page.
Add descriptions of the fctape and nofctape options, as well as the
ISP_FCTAPE_OFF kernel configuration option.
Add the ispfw module and kernel drivers to the suggested
configurations at the top of the man page so that users are less
likely to leave it out. The driver works well with the included
firmware, but may not work at all with whatever firmware the user
has flashed on their card.
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic
utilizing previously unused arg field of struct ccb_notify_acknowledge.
This makes new QUERY TASK, QUERY TASK SET and QUERY ASYNC EVENT requests
really functional for CAM target mode drivers.
This code was originally implemented 7 years ago, but never really worked
due to trivial error. I think this functionality may be not required.
Initiators supporting optional periodic command status checks detected
those terminated commands and retried them 3 seconds later. But thinking
about less featured initiators and the fact that it is our race makes
virtual ports "unknown" it may be good to have this feature.
It is normal for ZOMBIE ports to be logged out. This status is not really
an error until Gone Device Timeout expires, so make CAM retry after delay.
MFC after: 1 week
Firmware automatically logs in only to local loop ports, and those ports
can be easily identified without extra flag by zero domain and area IDs.
MFC after: 1 week
Since we no longer need additional buffers for request and response IOCBs,
we can increase receive space by 192 bytes, that is enough for fetching 48
more ports. The new limit is 1020 fabric ports per virtual port.
MFC after: 1 month
This should close the race between request arriving on new target mode
virtual port and its scanner thread finally fetch its address for request
routing.
For some reason firmware sends Port Database Changed notifications in case
of explicit login requests from the driver when target port is unavailabe.
Those notifications don't give driver any new information, but only cause
infinite scan loop.
Previously we had to do it synchronously because we could not drop the lock
due to potential scratch memory use conflicts. Previous commits fixed that
collision, so here it goes -- slower and less reliable external requests
are executed asynchronously without spinning in tight loop and with more
safe timeout handling.
Usually IOCBs should be put on queue for asynchronous processing and should
not require additional DMA memory. But there are some cases like aborts and
resets that for external reasons has to be synchronous. Give those cases
separate 2*64 byte DMA area to decouple them from other DMA scratch area
users, using it for asynchronous requests.
This is cosmetics that simplifies identification of new ports on FC switch.
It would be good to use target name from CTL here instead of hostname, but
it is not passed here through CAM now.
MFC after: 2 weeks
This space does not require DMA syncing. It reduces lock scope of the DMA
scratch space. It allows whole DMA scratch space to be used to I/O, so now
we can fetch up to ~1000 ports from SNS.
Due to the last fact, increase maximal number of ports from 256 to 1024.
Before this change virtual ports control IOCBs were executed synchronously
via Execute IOCB mailbox command. It required exclusive use of scratch
space of driver and mailbox registers of the hardware. Because of that
shared resources use this code could not really sleep, having to spin for
completion, blocking any other operation.
This change introduces new asynchronous design, sending the IOCBs directly
on request queue and gracefully waiting for their return on response queue.
Returned IOCBs are identified with unified handle space from r292725.
I am not sure why this was split long ago, but I see no reason for it.
At this point this unification just slightly reduces memory usage, but
as next step I plan to reuse shared handle space for other IOCB types.
- Make scan aborted by event restart immediately and infinitely.
- Improve handling of some loop events from firmware.
- Remove loop down timer, adding its functionality to scanner thread.
- Some more unification and simplification.
