[SCSI] mpt3sas: Added a driver module parameter max_msix_vectors

Added a driver module parameter max_msix_vectors. Using this module parameter
the maximum number of MSI-X vectors could be set.

The number of MSI-X vectors used would be the minimum of MSI-X vectors
supported by the HBA, the number of CPU cores and the value set to
max_msix_vectors module parameter.

The default value of this module parameter is set to 8. The default value of
this parameter is set to 8 inorder to reduce the amount of memory required for
Reply Descriptor Post queue.  This is because with the higher MSI-X vectors,
some times kernel is not able to allocate the requested amount of memory and
crash is observed. To overcome this problem, the default value is set to 8.

Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
index 34ff896a140d..fa785062e97b 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_base.c
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ static int msix_disable = -1;
 module_param(msix_disable, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(msix_disable, " disable msix routed interrupts (default=0)");
 
+static int max_msix_vectors = 8;
+module_param(max_msix_vectors, int, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_msix_vectors,
+        " max msix vectors - (default=8)");
 
 static int mpt3sas_fwfault_debug;
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(mpt3sas_fwfault_debug,
@@ -1721,6 +1725,16 @@ _base_enable_msix(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc)
         ioc->reply_queue_count = min_t(int, ioc->cpu_count,
             ioc->msix_vector_count);
 
+        printk(MPT3SAS_FMT "MSI-X vectors supported: %d, no of cores"
+          ": %d, max_msix_vectors: %d\n", ioc->name, ioc->msix_vector_count,
+          ioc->cpu_count, max_msix_vectors);
+
+        if (max_msix_vectors > 0) {
+                ioc->reply_queue_count = min_t(int, max_msix_vectors,
+                        ioc->reply_queue_count);
+                ioc->msix_vector_count = ioc->reply_queue_count;
+        }
+
         entries = kcalloc(ioc->reply_queue_count, sizeof(struct msix_entry),
             GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!entries) {