megaraid_sas: IO throttling support
authorSumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@avagotech.com>
Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:34:31 +0000 (21:04 +0530)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 02:27:02 +0000 (21:27 -0500)
commit52b62ac7c66e1a11eb8b3e3b0212847749af3b2d
treea27f8415c9a90f9f00a37c2e36ec14985b9bf886
parent308ec459bc1975d9856cfeb3d1cd6461794a3976
megaraid_sas: IO throttling support

This patch will add capability in driver to tell firmware that it can
throttle IOs in case controller's queue depth is downgraded post OFU
(online firmware upgrade). This feature will ensure firmware can be
downgraded from higher queue depth to lower queue depth without needing
system reboot. Added throttling code in IO path of driver, in case OS
tries to send more IOs than post OFU firmware's queue depth.

Signed-off-by: Sumit Saxena <sumit.saxena@avagotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@avagotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.h
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas_fusion.c