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authorJames Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>2019-01-28 11:14:28 -0800
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>2019-02-05 22:29:09 -0500
commitc490850a094794e7515737a6939146966c826577 (patch)
tree7501cd7a6d7150695d0dd1914a8c72ce843de194 /drivers/scsi/bnx2i
parentace44e48b1fc36055a8ff05a778110e726387032 (diff)
scsi: lpfc: Adapt partitioned XRI lists to efficient sharing
The XRI get/put lists were partitioned per hardware queue. However, the adapter rarely had sufficient resources to give a large number of resources per queue. As such, it became common for a cpu to encounter a lack of XRI resource and request the upper io stack to retry after returning a BUSY condition. This occurred even though other cpus were idle and not using their resources. Create as efficient a scheme as possible to move resources to the cpus that need them. Each cpu maintains a small private pool which it allocates from for io. There is a watermark that the cpu attempts to keep in the private pool. The private pool, when empty, pulls from a global pool from the cpu. When the cpu's global pool is empty it will pull from other cpu's global pool. As there many cpu global pools (1 per cpu or hardware queue count) and as each cpu selects what cpu to pull from at different rates and at different times, it creates a radomizing effect that minimizes the number of cpu's that will contend with each other when the steal XRI's from another cpu's global pool. On io completion, a cpu will push the XRI back on to its private pool. A watermark level is maintained for the private pool such that when it is exceeded it will move XRI's to the CPU global pool so that other cpu's may allocate them. On NVME, as heartbeat commands are critical to get placed on the wire, a single expedite pool is maintained. When a heartbeat is to be sent, it will allocate an XRI from the expedite pool rather than the normal cpu private/global pools. On any io completion, if a reduction in the expedite pools is seen, it will be replenished before the XRI is placed on the cpu private pool. Statistics are added to aid understanding the XRI levels on each cpu and their behaviors. Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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