Patch "cxlflash: Increase cmd_per_lun for better throughput" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    cxlflash: Increase cmd_per_lun for better throughput

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cxlflash-increase-cmd_per_lun-for-better-throughput.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 83430833b4d4a9c9b23964babbeb1f36450f8136 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Manoj N. Kumar" <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 15:55:20 -0600
Subject: cxlflash: Increase cmd_per_lun for better throughput

From: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 83430833b4d4a9c9b23964babbeb1f36450f8136 upstream.

With the current value of cmd_per_lun at 16, the throughput
over a single adapter is limited to around 150kIOPS.

Increase the value of cmd_per_lun to 256 to improve
throughput. With this change a single adapter is able to
attain close to the maximum throughput (380kIOPS).
Also change the number of RRQ entries that can be queued.

Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h |    8 +++++---
 drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c   |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/common.h
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ extern const struct file_operations cxlf
 								   sectors
 								*/
 
-#define NUM_RRQ_ENTRY    16     /* for master issued cmds */
 #define MAX_RHT_PER_CONTEXT (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct sisl_rht_entry))
 
 /* AFU command retry limit */
@@ -48,9 +47,12 @@ extern const struct file_operations cxlf
 							   index derivation
 							 */
 
-#define CXLFLASH_MAX_CMDS               16
+#define CXLFLASH_MAX_CMDS               256
 #define CXLFLASH_MAX_CMDS_PER_LUN       CXLFLASH_MAX_CMDS
 
+/* RRQ for master issued cmds */
+#define NUM_RRQ_ENTRY                   CXLFLASH_MAX_CMDS
+
 
 static inline void check_sizes(void)
 {
@@ -149,7 +151,7 @@ struct afu_cmd {
 struct afu {
 	/* Stuff requiring alignment go first. */
 
-	u64 rrq_entry[NUM_RRQ_ENTRY];	/* 128B RRQ */
+	u64 rrq_entry[NUM_RRQ_ENTRY];	/* 2K RRQ */
 	/*
 	 * Command & data for AFU commands.
 	 */
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
@@ -2305,7 +2305,7 @@ static struct scsi_host_template driver_
 	.eh_device_reset_handler = cxlflash_eh_device_reset_handler,
 	.eh_host_reset_handler = cxlflash_eh_host_reset_handler,
 	.change_queue_depth = cxlflash_change_queue_depth,
-	.cmd_per_lun = 16,
+	.cmd_per_lun = CXLFLASH_MAX_CMDS_PER_LUN,
 	.can_queue = CXLFLASH_MAX_CMDS,
 	.this_id = -1,
 	.sg_tablesize = SG_NONE,	/* No scatter gather support */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.4/cxlflash-increase-cmd_per_lun-for-better-throughput.patch