Hi!

> [ Upstream commit 31b6a05f86e690e1818116fd23c3be915cc9d9ed ]
> 
> megaraid_sas takes 1+ seconds to load while waiting for firmware:
> 
> [2.822603] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: Waiting for FW to come to ready state
> [3.871003] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: FW now in Ready state
> 
> This is due to the following loop in megasas_transition_to_ready(), which
> waits a minimum of 1 second, even though the FW becomes ready in tens of
> millisecs:
> 
>         /*
>          * The cur_state should not last for more than max_wait secs
>          */
>         for (i = 0; i < max_wait; i++) {
>                 ...
>                 msleep(1000);
>         ...
>         dev_info(&instance->pdev->dev, "FW now in Ready state\n");
> 
> This is a regression, caused by a change of the msleep granularity from 1
> to 1000 due to concern about waiting too long on systems with coarse
> jiffies.
> 
> To fix, increase iterations and use msleep(20), which results in:
> 
> [2.670627] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: Waiting for FW to come to ready state
> [2.739386] megaraid_sas 0000:03:00.0: FW now in Ready state
> 
> Fixes: fb2f3e96d80f ("scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix msleep granularity")


That commit does not exist, it seems this fixes:

commit 9155cf30a3c4ef97e225d6daddf9bd4b173267e8
    scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix msleep granularity

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									Pavel
									
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