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Commit db5b21a2 authored by Bart Van Assche's avatar Bart Van Assche Committed by Martin K. Petersen
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scsi: target/core: Use system workqueues for TMF



A quote from SAM-5: "The order in which task management requests are
processed is not specified by the SCSI architecture model.  The SCSI
architecture model does not require in-order delivery of such task
management requests or processing by the task manager in the order
received. To guarantee the processing order of task management requests
referencing sent to a specific logical unit, an application client should
not have more than one such task management request pending to that logical
unit." This means that it is safe to use the system workqueues instead of
tmr_wq for processing TMFs. An intended side effect of this patch is that
it enables concurrent processing of TMFs.

Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Cc: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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