scsi: megaraid_sas: SAS3.5 Generic Megaraid Controllers Fast Path for RAID 1/10 Writes

To improve RAID 1/10 Write performance, OS drivers need to issue the
required Write IOs as Fast Path IOs (after the appropriate checks
allowing Fast Path to be used) to the appropriate physical drives
(translated from the OS logical IO) and wait for all Write IOs to complete.

Design: A write IO on RAID volume will be examined if it can be sent in
Fast Path based on IO size and starting LBA and ending LBA falling on to
a Physical Drive boundary. If the underlying RAID volume is a RAID 1/10,
driver issues two fast path write IOs one for each corresponding physical
drive after computing the corresponding start LBA for each physical drive.
Both write IOs will have the same payload and are posted to HW such that
replies land in the same reply queue.

If there are no resources available for sending two IOs, driver will send
the original IO from SCSI layer to RAID volume through the Firmware.

Based on PCI bandwidth and write payload, every second this feature is
enabled/disabled.

When both IOs are completed by HW, the resources will be released
and SCSI IO completion handler will be called.

Signed-off-by: Sasikumar Chandrasekaran <sasikumar.pc@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h
index 3d86bc65222d..a96889c34db0 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h
@@ -2056,6 +2056,7 @@ struct megasas_instance {
 
 	u16 max_num_sge;
 	u16 max_fw_cmds;
+	u16 max_mpt_cmds;
 	u16 max_mfi_cmds;
 	u16 max_scsi_cmds;
 	u16 ldio_threshold;