Patch to fix timeouts during multi-path failover with LSILogic adapter on RedHat 4.0 Update 3 & 4.
Patch is needed for other distributions as well - for example current Linus's 2.6.19 kernel needs it.


diff -urN linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c linux-2.6.9/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
--- linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c	2006-12-15 11:13:47.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c	2006-12-15 11:43:01.000000000 -0800
@@ -1435,12 +1435,21 @@
 		ioc->bus_type = SPI;
 		/* 1030 Chip Fix. Disable Split transactions
 		 * for PCIX. Set MOST bits to zero if Rev < C0( = 8).
+		 *
+		 * Also detect VMware's LSILogic emulation - it does
+		 * not have PCI-X capability at offset 0x68 (and does
+		 * not need disabling split transactions although it
+		 * reports itself as revision 1).
 		 */
 		pci_read_config_byte(pdev, PCI_CLASS_REVISION, &revision);
 		if (revision < C0_1030) {
-			pci_read_config_byte(pdev, 0x6a, &pcixcmd);
-			pcixcmd &= 0x8F;
-			pci_write_config_byte(pdev, 0x6a, pcixcmd);
+			if (pci_find_capability(pdev, PCI_CAP_ID_PCIX) == 0x68) {
+				pci_read_config_byte(pdev, 0x6a, &pcixcmd);
+				pcixcmd &= 0x8F;
+				pci_write_config_byte(pdev, 0x6a, pcixcmd);
+			} else {
+				ioc->isVMware = 1;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	else if (pdev->device == MPI_MANUFACTPAGE_DEVID_1030_53C1035) {
diff -urN linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h linux-2.6.9/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h
--- linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h	2006-12-15 11:13:47.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h	2006-12-15 11:40:47.000000000 -0800
@@ -673,7 +673,8 @@
 	u8			 upload_fw;	/* If set, do a fw upload */
 	u8			 reload_fw;	/* Force a FW Reload on next reset */
 	u8			 NBShiftFactor;  /* NB Shift Factor based on Block Size (Facts)  */
-	u8			 pad1[4];
+	u8			 isVMware;
+	u8			 pad1[3];
 	int			 DoneCtx;
 	int			 TaskCtx;
 	int			 InternalCtx;
diff -urN linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsi.c linux-2.6.9/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsi.c
--- linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsi.c	2006-12-15 11:13:47.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/message/fusion/mptscsi.c	2006-12-15 11:49:18.000000000 -0800
@@ -773,7 +773,12 @@
 			sc->resid=0;
 		case MPI_IOCSTATUS_SCSI_RECOVERED_ERROR:	/* 0x0040 */
 		case MPI_IOCSTATUS_SUCCESS:			/* 0x0000 */
-			if (scsi_status == MPI_SCSI_STATUS_BUSY)
+			/*
+			 * In the case of emulated adapter busy status may be reported 
+			 * for minutes when storage path switch occurs in the firmware.
+			 * We definitely do not want to give up after standard timeout.
+			 */
+			if (scsi_status == MPI_SCSI_STATUS_BUSY && !ioc->isVMware)
 				sc->result = (DID_BUS_BUSY << 16) | scsi_status;
 			else
 				sc->result = (DID_OK << 16) | scsi_status;
@@ -810,6 +815,7 @@
 				 * Not real sure here either so do nothing...  */
 			}
 
+			/* Perhaps this wanted to test scsi_status and not sc->result? */
 			if (sc->result == MPI_SCSI_STATUS_TASK_SET_FULL)
 				mptscsih_report_queue_full(sc, pScsiReply, pScsiReq);