From: Karen Higgins <karen.higg...@qlogic.com> 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.higg...@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudh...@qlogic.com> --- drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_def.h | 2 ++ drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_iocb.c | 2 +- drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_mbx.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_def.h b/drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_def.h index 8f41937..ad58062 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 f48f37a..14fec97 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 1c57c22..81e738d 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; } -- 1.7.8.GIT -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html