Added a driver module parameter max_msix_vectors. Using this module parameter
the maximum number of MSI-X vectors could be set.

The number of MSI-X vectors used would be the minimum of MSI-X vectors 
supported by
the HBA, the number of CPU cores and the value set to max_msix_vectors module 
parameter.

The default value of this module parameter is set to 8. The default value of 
this parameter
is set to 8 inorder to reduce the amount of memory required for Reply 
Descriptor Post queue.
This is because with the higher MSI-X vectors, some times kernel is not able to 
allocate the
requested amount of memory and crash is observed. To overcome this problem,
the default value is set to 8.

Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.re...@lsi.com>
--- 

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c 
b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
index a32d63b..d40ba0b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ static int msix_disable = -1;
 module_param(msix_disable, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(msix_disable, " disable msix routed interrupts (default=0)");
 
+static int max_msix_vectors = 8;
+module_param(max_msix_vectors, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_msix_vectors,
+       " max msix vectors - (default=8)");
 
 static int mpt3sas_fwfault_debug;
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(mpt3sas_fwfault_debug,
@@ -1723,6 +1727,16 @@ _base_enable_msix(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc)
        ioc->reply_queue_count = min_t(int, ioc->cpu_count,
            ioc->msix_vector_count);
 
+       printk(MPT3SAS_FMT "MSI-X vectors supported: %d, no of cores"
+         ": %d, max_msix_vectors: %d\n", ioc->name, ioc->msix_vector_count,
+         ioc->cpu_count, max_msix_vectors);
+
+       if (max_msix_vectors > 0) {
+               ioc->reply_queue_count = min_t(int, max_msix_vectors,
+                       ioc->reply_queue_count);
+               ioc->msix_vector_count = ioc->reply_queue_count;
+       }
+
        entries = kcalloc(ioc->reply_queue_count, sizeof(struct msix_entry),
            GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!entries) {

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