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    aoe: handle multiple network paths to AoE device · 68e0d42f
    Ed L. Cashin authored
    A remote AoE device is something can process ATA commands and is identified by
    an AoE shelf number and an AoE slot number.  Such a device might have more
    than one network interface, and it might be reachable by more than one local
    network interface.  This patch tracks the available network paths available to
    each AoE device, allowing them to be used more efficiently.
    
    Andrew Morton asked about the call to msleep_interruptible in the revalidate
    function.  Yes, if a signal is pending, then msleep_interruptible will not
    return 0.  That means we will not loop but will call aoenet_xmit with a NULL
    skb, which is a noop.  If the system is too low on memory or the aoe driver is
    too low on frames, then the user can hit control-C to interrupt the attempt to
    do a revalidate.  I have added a comment to the code summarizing that.
    
    Andrew Morton asked whether the allocation performed inside addtgt could use a
    more relaxed allocation like GFP_KERNEL, but addtgt is called when the aoedev
    lock has been locked with spin_lock_irqsave.  It would be nice to allocate the
    memory under fewer restrictions, but targets are only added when the device is
    being discovered, and if the target can't be added right now, we can try again
    in a minute when then next AoE config query broadcast goes out.
    
    Andrew Morton pointed out that the "too many targets" message could be printed
    for failing GFP_ATOMIC allocations.  The last patch in this series makes the
    messages more specific.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEd L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
    Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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