[SCSI] aacraid: adjustable timeouts

Received From Mark Salyzyn

Add the ability to adjust for unusual corner case failures. Both of
these additional module parameters deal with embedded, non-intel or
complicated system scenarios.

Aif_timeout can be increased past the default 2 minute timeout to drop
application registrations when a system has an unusually high event load
resulting from continuing management requests, or simultaneous builds,
or sluggish user space as a result of system load.

Startup_timeout can be increased past the default 3 minute timeout to
drop an adapter initialization for systems that have a very large number
of targets, or slow to spin-up targets, or a complicated set of array
configurations that extend the time for the firmware to declare that it
is operational. This timeout would only have an affect on non-intel
based systems, as the (more patient) BIOS would generally be where the
startup delay would be dealt with.

Signed-off-by: Mark Haverkamp <markh@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c
index 5d2989754c9..be8dde4c0f0 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aachba.c
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ static int nondasd = -1;
 static int dacmode = -1;
 
 static int commit = -1;
+int startup_timeout = 180;
+int aif_timeout = 120;
 
 module_param(nondasd, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(nondasd, "Control scanning of hba for nondasd devices. 0=off, 1=on");
@@ -155,6 +157,10 @@ module_param(dacmode, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dacmode, "Control whether dma addressing is using 64 bit DAC. 0=off, 1=on");
 module_param(commit, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(commit, "Control whether a COMMIT_CONFIG is issued to the adapter for foreign arrays.\nThis is typically needed in systems that do not have a BIOS. 0=off, 1=on");
+module_param(startup_timeout, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(startup_timeout, "The duration of time in seconds to wait for adapter to have it's kernel up and\nrunning. This is typically adjusted for large systems that do not have a BIOS.");
+module_param(aif_timeout, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(aif_timeout, "The duration of time in seconds to wait for applications to pick up AIFs before\nderegistering them. This is typically adjusted for heavily burdened systems.");
 
 int numacb = -1;
 module_param(numacb, int, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);