Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
"Lots of activity again this round for I/O performance optimizations
(per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for vhost + iscsi/target), and the
addition of new fabric independent features to target-core
(COMPARE_AND_WRITE + EXTENDED_COPY).
The main highlights include:
- Support for iscsi-target login multiplexing across individual
network portals
- Generic Per-cpu IDA logic (kent + akpm + clameter)
- Conversion of vhost to use per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for
descriptors, SGLs and userspace page pointer list
- Conversion of iscsi-target + iser-target to use per-cpu IDA
pre-allocation for descriptors
- Add support for generic COMPARE_AND_WRITE (AtomicTestandSet)
emulation for virtual backend drivers
- Add support for generic EXTENDED_COPY (CopyOffload) emulation for
virtual backend drivers.
- Add support for fast memory registration mode to iser-target (Vu)
The patches to add COMPARE_AND_WRITE and EXTENDED_COPY support are of
particular significance, which make us the first and only open source
target to support the full set of VAAI primitives.
Currently Linux clients are lacking upstream support to actually
utilize these primitives. However, with server side support now in
place for folks like MKP + ZAB working on the client, this logic once
reserved for the highest end of storage arrays, can now be run in VMs
on their laptops"
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (50 commits)
target/iscsi: Bump versions to v4.1.0
target: Update copyright ownership/year information to 2013
iscsi-target: Bump default TCP listen backlog to 256
target: Fix >= v3.9+ regression in PR APTPL + ALUA metadata write-out
iscsi-target; Bump default CmdSN Depth to 64
iscsi-target: Remove unnecessary wait_for_completion in iscsi_get_thread_set
iscsi-target: Add thread_set->ts_activate_sem + use common deallocate
iscsi-target: Fix race with thread_pre_handler flush_signals + ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE
target: remove unused including <linux/version.h>
iser-target: introduce fast memory registration mode (FRWR)
iser-target: generalize rdma memory registration and cleanup
iser-target: move rdma wr processing to a shared function
target: Enable global EXTENDED_COPY setup/release
target: Add Third Party Copy (3PC) bit in INQUIRY response
target: Enable EXTENDED_COPY setup in spc_parse_cdb
target: Add support for EXTENDED_COPY copy offload emulation
target: Avoid non-existent tg_pt_gp_mem in target_alua_state_check
target: Add global device list for EXTENDED_COPY
target: Make helpers non static for EXTENDED_COPY command setup
target: Make spc_parse_naa_6h_vendor_specific non static
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Linus Torvalds