From: Robert Elliott <elli...@hp.com>
Empirically, this improves performance slightly (~2% max IOPS) by
allowing cmd_alloc to remember where it left off searching for
free commands between calls instead of always starting its search
at command 0.
Reviewed-by: Scott Teel <scott.t...@pmcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elli...@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <don.br...@pmcs.com>
---
drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 7 +++++--
drivers/scsi/hpsa.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
index c95a20c..72abcf3 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -4649,9 +4649,10 @@ static struct CommandList *cmd_alloc(struct ctlr_info *h)
union u64bit temp64;
dma_addr_t cmd_dma_handle, err_dma_handle;
int refcount;
- unsigned long offset = 0;
+ unsigned long offset;
- /* There is some *extremely* small but non-zero chance that that
+ /*
+ * There is some *extremely* small but non-zero chance that that
* multiple threads could get in here, and one thread could
* be scanning through the list of bits looking for a free
* one, but the free ones are always behind him, and other
@@ -4662,6 +4663,7 @@ static struct CommandList *cmd_alloc(struct ctlr_info *h)
* infrequently as to be indistinguishable from never.
*/
+ offset = h->last_allocation; /* benignly racy */
for (;;) {
i = find_next_zero_bit(h->cmd_pool_bits, h->nr_cmds, offset);
if (unlikely(i == h->nr_cmds)) {
@@ -4679,6 +4681,7 @@ static struct CommandList *cmd_alloc(struct ctlr_info *h)
h->cmd_pool_bits + (i / BITS_PER_LONG));
break; /* it's ours now. */
}
+ h->last_allocation = i; /* benignly racy */
/* Zero out all of commandlist except the last field, refcount */
memset(c, 0, offsetof(struct CommandList, refcount));
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
index 679e4d2..981479a 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.h
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ struct ctlr_info {
struct CfgTable __iomem *cfgtable;
int interrupts_enabled;
int max_commands;
+ int last_allocation;
atomic_t commands_outstanding;
# define PERF_MODE_INT 0
# define DOORBELL_INT 1
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