Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] [patch] Remove the ioctl call to delete alltargets

[Ross S. W. W. <RW...@me...>]

Ross S. W. Walker [mailto:RW...@me...] wrote:
> 
> Remove the ioctl call to delete all targets.
> 
> With the kernel deleting all targets itself when ietd dies there
> is no need to keep this around any longer, especially since the
> earlier ioctl patches added a semaphore around the kernel's
> ioctl calls and the target delete all call, eliminating the race
> condition that existed where ietd might start trying to add
> configuration while the kernel module was removing configuration.
> 
> A nice side-effect of this is that initiators will be able to
> re-connect on a restart of ietd because there was a race condition
> between ietd clearing the kernel configuration and initiators
> attempting to reconnect that caused them to fail.
> 
> The 'ietadm --op delete' still exists in the initd files for
> iSNS deregistration which will probably be incorporated into ietd
> iSNS registration in a later patch.
> 
> Tested on RHEL5 against MS initiator.

Signed-off-by: Ross Walker


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