July 12, 2013
Participants: Nicholas A. Bellinger, Greg KH, Hannes Reinecke, James Bottomley, Alasdair G Kergon.
People tagged: Jens Axboe (blk-mq author), James Bottomley (scsi maintainer), Christoph Hellwig (scsi), Martin Petersen (scsi), Tejun Heo (block + libata), Hannes Reinecke (scsi error recovery), Kent Overstreet (block, per-cpu ida), Stephen Cameron (scsi-over-pcie driver), Andrew Vasquez (qla2xxx LLD), James Smart (lpfc LLD).
Nicholas A. Bellinger
would like to discuss multi-queue SCSI implementations, such as Jens
Axboe's scsi-mq work.
Nicholas would like to avoid fast-path access to
scsi_host->host_lock, dispatch into scsi-mq-enabled LLD
code, and memory allocations.
Greg KH
suggested that this topic was better suited for the storage minisummit
(Nicholas,
Hannes,
and
Alasdair
respectfully disagreed),
and
James
suggested starting the discussion on the
linux-scsi email list.
Jens Axboe,
although agreeing that the topic was a bit specialized, argued that
it would be good to have at least a little technical meat on the
LKS process bone.
James
asked for patches first, but also suggested a BoF at the
Linux Plumbers Conference
Storage and Filesystems Microconference.
Ric Wheeler,
who leads up the Plumbers Storage and Filesystems Microconference,
said that he would welcome this topic, but
Jens Axboe
will be unable to attend Plumbers this year, which prompted
Nicholas A. Bellinger
to push again for a minisummit associated with LKS.