scsi: qla2xxx: Fix setting lower transfer speed if GPSC fails
authorHimanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>
Mon, 4 Jun 2018 05:09:53 +0000 (22:09 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 3 Jul 2018 09:24:57 +0000 (11:24 +0200)
commit9224583a5ee225969577ba4992322420e805fd2b
treeed8b238f22880c578ccb02c72b76119ca25691ef
parent2829829c3e61b8ff7245345613f10344e1bf3d22
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix setting lower transfer speed if GPSC fails

commit 413c2f33489b134e3cc65d9c3ff7861e8fdfe899 upstream.

This patch prevents driver from setting lower default speed of 1 GB/sec,
if the switch does not support Get Port Speed Capabilities (GPSC)
command. Setting this default speed results into much lower write
performance for large sequential WRITE.  This patch modifies driver to
check for gpsc_supported flags and prevents driver from issuing
MBC_SET_PORT_PARAM (001Ah) to set default speed of 1 GB/sec. If driver
does not send this mailbox command, firmware assumes maximum supported
link speed and will operate at the max speed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@cavium.com>
Reported-by: Eda Zhou <ezhou@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ewan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c