Re: [PATCH v3] scsi: core: Fix shost->cmd_per_lun calculation in scsi_add_host_with_dma()

Martin K. Petersen
2021-10-12T21:28:03Z

Dexuan,

> Regarding this patch, I'm not sure if it's a "workaround": if it's
> incorrect to set a bigger-than-SHRT_MAX scsi_driver.can_queue value,
> probably we should change scsi_driver.can_queue from "int" to "u16"?

> BTW, I guess the "cmd_per_lun" should also be "u16" rather than
> "short"?

I agree that it would be nice to get all this cleaned up. Several,
somewhat peculiar, 25-year old design choices.

cmd_per_lun has traditionally been in the ballpark of low hundreds,
can_queue typically in the low thousands. And the block layer currently
caps at ~10K. Happy to take patches fixing this up, although I am a bit
worried about how much churn it will generate.

That said, I do think that cleaning this up is somewhat orthogonal to
the issue with storvsc. I suspect that allowing a huge amount of
concurrent outstanding commands is going to be detrimental to
performance for most workloads. And from that perspective I think that
the short->int fix, while valid given the type discrepancy, is just
treating the symptom.

Therefore I consider the short->int fix a workaround. And the proper fix
involves looking closely at things are scaled in the storvsc case. Which
I have noted that Michael is working on.

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Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering