This patch sets can_queue in the aic94xx driver's scsi_host to better
performing values than what's there currently. It seems that
asd_ha->seq.can_queue reflects the number of requests that can be
queued per controller; so long as there's one scsi_host per
controller, it seems logical that the scsi_host ought to have the same
can_queue value. To the best of my (still limited) knowledge, this
method provides the correct value.
The effect of leaving this value set to 1 is terrible performance in
the case of either (a) certain Maxtor SAS drives flying solo or (b)
flooding several disks with I/O simultaneously (md-raid). There may be
more scenarios where we see similar problems that I haven't uncovered.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
This is the end point of the separate aic94xx driver based on the
original driver and transport class from Luben Tuikov
<ltuikov@yahoo.com>
The log of the separate development is:
Alexis Bruemmer:
o aic94xx: fix hotplug/unplug for expanderless systems
o aic94xx: disable split completion timer/setting by default
o aic94xx: wide port off expander support
o aic94xx: remove various inline functions
o aic94xx: use bitops
o aic94xx: remove queue comment
o aic94xx: remove sas_common.c
o aic94xx: sas remove depot's
o aic94xx: use available list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse()
o aic94xx: sas header file merge
James Bottomley:
o aic94xx: fix TF_TMF_NO_CTX processing
o aic94xx: convert to request_firmware interface
o aic94xx: fix hotplug/unplug
o aic94xx: add link error counts to the expander phys
o aic94xx: add transport class phy reset capability
o aic94xx: remove local_attached flag
o Remove README
o Fixup Makefile variable for libsas rename
o Rename sas->libsas
o aic94xx: correct return code for sas_discover_event
o aic94xx: use parent backlink port
o aic94xx: remove channel abstraction
o aic94xx: fix routing algorithms
o aic94xx: add backlink port
o aic94xx: fix cascaded expander properties
o aic94xx: fix sleep under lock
o aic94xx: fix panic on module removal in complex topology
o aic94xx: make use of the new sas_port
o rename sas_port to asd_sas_port
o Fix for eh_strategy_handler move
o aic94xx: move entirely over to correct transport class formulation
o remove last vestages of sas_rphy_alloc()
o update for eh_timed_out move
o Preliminary expander support for aic94xx
o sas: remove event thread
o minor warning cleanups
o remove last vestiges of id mapping arrays
o Further updates
o Convert aic94xx over entirely to the transport class end device and
o update aic94xx/sas to use the new sas transport class end device
o [PATCH] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
o Add missing completion removal from prior patch
o [PATCH] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
o Build fixes from akpm
Jeff Garzik:
o [scsi aic94xx] Remove ->owner from PCI info table
Luben Tuikov:
o initial aic94xx driver
Mike Anderson:
o aic94xx: fix panic on module insertion
o aic94xx: stub out SATA_DEV case
o aic94xx: compile warning cleanups
o aic94xx: sas_alloc_task
o aic94xx: ref count update
o aic94xx nexus loss time value
o [PATCH] aic94xx: driver assertion in non-x86 BIOS env
Randy Dunlap:
o libsas: externs not needed
Robert Tarte:
o aic94xx: sequence patch - fixes SATA support
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
