libata-pmp-prep: implement ops->qc_defer()

Controllers which support PMP have various restrictions on which
combinations of commands are allowed to what number of devices
concurrently.  This patch implements ops->qc_defer() which determines
whether a qc can be issued at the moment or should be deferred.

If the function returns ATA_DEFER_LINK, the qc will be deferred until
a qc completes on the link.  If ATA_DEFER_PORT, until a qc completes
on any link.  The defer conditions are advisory and in general
ATA_DEFER_LINK can be considered as lower priority deferring than
ATA_DEFER_PORT.

ops->qc_defer() replaces fixed ata_scmd_need_defer().  For standard
NCQ/non-NCQ exclusion, ata_std_qc_defer() is implemented.  ahci and
sata_sil24 are converted to use ata_std_qc_defer().

ops->qc_defer() is heavier than the original mechanism because full qc
is prepped before determining to defer it, but various information is
needed to determine defer conditinos and fully translating a qc is the
only way to supply such information in generic manner.

IMHO, this shouldn't cause any noticeable performance issues as

* for most cases deferring occurs rarely (except for NCQ-aware
  cmd-switching PMP)
* translation itself isn't that expensive
* once deferred the command won't be repeated until another command
  completes which usually is a very long time cpu-wise.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index c3820f105ffa..b0d4ca0d27b4 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -272,6 +272,10 @@ enum {
 	/* ering size */
 	ATA_ERING_SIZE		= 32,
 
+	/* return values for ->qc_defer */
+	ATA_DEFER_LINK		= 1,
+	ATA_DEFER_PORT		= 2,
+
 	/* desc_len for ata_eh_info and context */
 	ATA_EH_DESC_LEN		= 80,
 
@@ -639,6 +643,7 @@ struct ata_port_operations {
 
 	void (*data_xfer) (struct ata_device *, unsigned char *, unsigned int, int);
 
+	int (*qc_defer) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
 	void (*qc_prep) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
 	unsigned int (*qc_issue) (struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
 
@@ -824,6 +829,7 @@ extern void ata_data_xfer(struct ata_device *adev, unsigned char *buf,
 			  unsigned int buflen, int write_data);
 extern void ata_data_xfer_noirq(struct ata_device *adev, unsigned char *buf,
 				unsigned int buflen, int write_data);
+extern int ata_std_qc_defer(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
 extern void ata_dumb_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
 extern void ata_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);
 extern void ata_noop_qc_prep(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc);