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    fcoe: convert to kworker · 4b9bc86d
    Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
    The driver creates its own per-CPU threads which are updated based on
    CPU hotplug events. It is also possible to use kworkers and remove some
    of the kthread infrastrucure.
    
    The code checked ->thread to decide if there is an active per-CPU
    thread. By using the kworker infrastructure this is no longer
    possible (or required). The thread pointer is saved in `kthread' instead
    of `thread' so anything trying to use thread is caught by the
    compiler. Currently only the bnx2fc driver is using struct fcoe_percpu_s
    and the kthread member.
    
    After a CPU went offline, we may still enqueue items on the "offline"
    CPU. This isn't much of a problem. The work will be done on a random
    CPU. The allocated crc_eof_page page won't be cleaned up. It is probably
    expected that the CPU comes up at some point so it should not be a
    problem. The crc_eof_page memory is released of course once the module
    is removed.
    
    This patch was only compile-tested due to -ENODEV.
    
    Cc: Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@intel.com>
    Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Cc: fcoe-devel@open-fcoe.org
    Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJohannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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