From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754664AbdFWJkj (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:40:39 -0400 Received: from victor.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.26]:38208 "EHLO prv3-mh.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754238AbdFWJkh (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2017 05:40:37 -0400 From: Yadan Fan To: don.brace@microsemi.com, martin.petersen@oracle.com, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: esc.storagedev@microsemi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yadan Fan Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] hpsa: limit transfer length to 1MB Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:40:05 +0800 Message-Id: <20170623094006.16807-1-ydfan@suse.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.12.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The hpsa firmware will bypass the cache for any request larger than 1MB, so we should cap the request size to avoid any performance degradation in kernels later than v4.3 This degradation is caused from d2be537c3ba3568acd79cd178327b842e60d035e, which changed max_sectors_kb to 1280k, but the hardware is able to work fine with it, so the true fix should be from hpsa driver. Signed-off-by: Yadan Fan --- Changes: Reduced SUSE distribution info and internal bug id reference. drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c index 73daace478cb..b4c0bbea680c 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template hpsa_driver_template = { #endif .sdev_attrs = hpsa_sdev_attrs, .shost_attrs = hpsa_shost_attrs, - .max_sectors = 8192, + .max_sectors = 1024, .no_write_same = 1, }; -- 2.12.3