The short response:
Acked-by: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxx>
Background:
Nothing Broke. This was intended.
We had originally enabled MSI-X by default, but in qualification within the
last 12 months, we encountered a major catch-22:
There were at least 4 platforms, from 2 major OEMs, that :
- Say they support MSI-X - platform routines work and act as if they do.
- We enable it, generate a test interrupt to check they really do deliver it,
and it works.
- But shortly after attachment, the system hangs or loses interrupts,
resulting in a bad system behavior.
Given the distro's picking up the 2.6.32 kernel, we had to stick with a
default of MSI-X off, with user-enabled MSI-X as these platforms couldn't get
fixed.
However, we're also now encountering platforms that require MSI-X and never
INTx, so we must change. It's desired also for also for performance reasons.
So - now (2.6.33) is the right time to re-enable MSI-X by default.
-- james s
George Kadianakis wrote:
From: George Kadianakis <desnacked {bomb} gmail {point} com>
A Gentoo bug report [1] showed that as of 2.6.31 lpfc only uses INTx interrupts.
This patch restores lpfc's ability to support MSI-X/MSI interrupts that the
"Addition of SLI4 Interface - Base Support" patch [2] broke.
It reestablishes MSI-X as the default interrupt method and in case MSI-X is not
supported lpfc_sli{4,}_enable_intr fallbacks to MSI and then to INTx.
[1]: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296319
[2]: commit da0436e915a5c17ee79e72c1bf978a4ebb1cbf4d
Signed-off-by: George Kadianakis <desnacked {cat} gmail {dog} com>
---
drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c
index e1a30a1..936ecaf 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_attr.c
@@ -2890,12 +2890,12 @@ LPFC_ATTR_RW(poll_tmo, 10, 1, 255,
/*
# lpfc_use_msi: Use MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts) in systems that
# support this feature
-# 0 = MSI disabled (default)
+# 0 = MSI disabled
# 1 = MSI enabled
-# 2 = MSI-X enabled
+# 2 = MSI-X enabled (default)
# Value range is [0,2]. Default value is 0.
*/
-LPFC_ATTR_R(use_msi, 0, 0, 2, "Use Message Signaled Interrupts (1) or "
+LPFC_ATTR_R(use_msi, 2, 0, 2, "Use Message Signaled Interrupts (1) or "
"MSI-X (2), if possible");
/*
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