** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => In Progress

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

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Title:
  hisi_sas: improve performance by optimizing DQ locking

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  The way the driver deals with locking the DQ causes performance to suffer.

  [Test Case]
  Run iozone3 and validate performance is >= previous.

  [Fix]
  Once a DQ slot is allocated, it must be used. So, currently the driver locks 
the DQ while it builds and sends each task to the hardware, just in case there 
is a failure, so that it can reuse that slot. However - there is a point at 
which we the build/send is guaranteed to succeed, so we can release the lock at 
that point allowing new slots to be allocated.

  [Regression Risk]
  All fixes are localized to the hisi_sas drivers, which are drivers for the 
controllers in the hip06/hip07 SoCs, where we have directly tested these 
updates.

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