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authorKaren Higgins <karen.higgins@qlogic.com>2013-01-20 23:51:00 -0500
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2013-01-30 13:47:16 +1100
commit5b1c1bff07d579f8a7b672d4e5262d52eba5ef01 (patch)
tree83b802ffe3e95af2c8e2ecfc1fc907143149f274 /drivers/scsi/qla4xxx
parentff4108dce9e82acbde8e8b1899aaa4d91bf504b7 (diff)
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Throttle active IOCBs to firmware limits
Problem: QLA4xxx firmware may assert if given more IOCBs than it can handle. Solution: The driver was updated to throttle the number of active IOCBs based on the total number of IOCB buffers received from get_firmware_status mbx_sts[2]. Signed-off-by: Karen Higgins <karen.higgins@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/qla4xxx')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_def.h2
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_iocb.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c20
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_def.h b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_def.h
index 8f419376666..ad580625a47 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_def.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_def.h
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@
#define RESPONSE_QUEUE_DEPTH 64
#define QUEUE_SIZE 64
#define DMA_BUFFER_SIZE 512
+#define IOCB_HIWAT_CUSHION 4
/*
* Misc
@@ -540,6 +541,7 @@ struct scsi_qla_host {
uint32_t tot_ddbs;
uint16_t iocb_cnt;
+ uint16_t iocb_hiwat;
/* SRB cache. */
#define SRB_MIN_REQ 128
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_iocb.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_iocb.c
index f48f37a281d..14fec976f63 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_iocb.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_iocb.c
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ int qla4xxx_send_command_to_isp(struct scsi_qla_host *ha, struct srb * srb)
goto queuing_error;
/* total iocbs active */
- if ((ha->iocb_cnt + req_cnt) >= REQUEST_QUEUE_DEPTH)
+ if ((ha->iocb_cnt + req_cnt) >= ha->iocb_hiwat)
goto queuing_error;
/* Build command packet */
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c
index 1c57c227c80..81e738d61ec 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c
@@ -697,8 +697,24 @@ int qla4xxx_get_firmware_status(struct scsi_qla_host * ha)
return QLA_ERROR;
}
- ql4_printk(KERN_INFO, ha, "%ld firmware IOCBs available (%d).\n",
- ha->host_no, mbox_sts[2]);
+ /* High-water mark of IOCBs */
+ ha->iocb_hiwat = mbox_sts[2];
+ DEBUG2(ql4_printk(KERN_INFO, ha,
+ "%s: firmware IOCBs available = %d\n", __func__,
+ ha->iocb_hiwat));
+
+ if (ha->iocb_hiwat > IOCB_HIWAT_CUSHION)
+ ha->iocb_hiwat -= IOCB_HIWAT_CUSHION;
+
+ /* Ideally, we should not enter this code, as the # of firmware
+ * IOCBs is hard-coded in the firmware. We set a default
+ * iocb_hiwat here just in case */
+ if (ha->iocb_hiwat == 0) {
+ ha->iocb_hiwat = REQUEST_QUEUE_DEPTH / 4;
+ DEBUG2(ql4_printk(KERN_WARNING, ha,
+ "%s: Setting IOCB's to = %d\n", __func__,
+ ha->iocb_hiwat));
+ }
return QLA_SUCCESS;
}