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authorYi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>2009-08-25 13:59:03 -0700
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>2009-09-10 12:07:27 -0500
commit05cc7390735c49357b9ae67bf97f1c1579547f5b (patch)
tree350ec608799ade3d3ad8000c45008bc948542aaa /drivers
parentb2f0091fbf8b475fa09b5e1712e0ab84cb3e1ca4 (diff)
[SCSI] fcoe: Add sysfs parameter to fcoe for minimum DDP read I/O size
This adds fcoe_ddp_min as a module parameter for fcoe module to: /sys/module/fcoe/parameters/ddp_min It is observed that for some hardware, particularly Intel 82599, there is too much overhead in setting up context for direct data placement (DDP) read when the requested read I/O size is small. This is added as a module parameter for performance tuning and is set as 0 by default and user can change this based on their own hardware. Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
index e32a0ed266a..a39d370bccf 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Open-FCoE.org");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("FCoE");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+/* Performance tuning parameters for fcoe */
+static unsigned int fcoe_ddp_min;
+module_param_named(ddp_min, fcoe_ddp_min, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(ddp_min, "Minimum I/O size in bytes for " \
+ "Direct Data Placement (DDP).");
+
/* fcoe host list */
LIST_HEAD(fcoe_hostlist);
DEFINE_RWLOCK(fcoe_hostlist_lock);
@@ -414,7 +420,8 @@ static int fcoe_shost_config(struct fc_lport *lp, struct Scsi_Host *shost,
*/
bool fcoe_oem_match(struct fc_frame *fp)
{
- return fc_fcp_is_read(fr_fsp(fp));
+ return fc_fcp_is_read(fr_fsp(fp)) &&
+ (fr_fsp(fp)->data_len > fcoe_ddp_min);
}
/**