Commit 0568e6122574 ("ata: libata-scsi: cap ata_device->max_sectors
according to shost->max_sectors") inadvertently capped the max_sectors
value for some SATA disks to a value which is lower than we would want.
For a device which supports LBA48, we would previously have request queue
max_sectors_kb and max_hw_sectors_kb values of 1280 and 32767 respectively.
For AHCI controllers, the value chosen for shost max sectors comes from
the minimum of the SCSI host default max sectors in
SCSI_DEFAULT_MAX_SECTORS (1024) and the shost DMA device mapping limit.
This means that we would now set the max_sectors_kb and max_hw_sectors_kb
values for a disk which supports LBA48 at 512, ignoring DMA mapping limit.
As report by Oliver at [0], this caused a performance regression.
Fix by picking a large enough max sectors value for ATA host controllers
such that we don't needlessly reduce max_sectors_kb for LBA48 disks.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/YvsGbidf3na5FpGb@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/T/#m22d9fc5ad15af66066dd9fecf3d50f1b1ef11da3
Fixes: 0568e6122574 ("ata: libata-scsi: cap ata_device->max_sectors according to shost->max_sectors")
Reported-by: Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/linux/libata.h b/include/linux/libata.h
index 0269ff114f5a..698032e5ef2d 100644
--- a/include/linux/libata.h
+++ b/include/linux/libata.h
@@ -1382,7 +1382,8 @@ extern const struct attribute_group *ata_common_sdev_groups[];
.proc_name = drv_name, \
.slave_destroy = ata_scsi_slave_destroy, \
.bios_param = ata_std_bios_param, \
- .unlock_native_capacity = ata_scsi_unlock_native_capacity
+ .unlock_native_capacity = ata_scsi_unlock_native_capacity,\
+ .max_sectors = ATA_MAX_SECTORS_LBA48
#define ATA_SUBBASE_SHT(drv_name) \
__ATA_BASE_SHT(drv_name), \
--
2.35.3
