4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Manoj N. Kumar" <manoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit ea76543127da32dec28af0a13ea1b06625fc085e ]
While profiling the cxlflash_queuecommand() path under a heavy load it
was found that number of retries to find cmd_room was fairly high.
There are two problems with the current back-off:
a) It starts with a udelay of 0
b) It backs-off linearly
Tried several approaches (a higher multiple 10*n, 100*n, as well as n^2,
2^n) and found that the exponential back-off(2^n) approach had the least
overall cost. Cost as being defined as overall time spent waiting.
The fix is to change the linear back-off to an exponential back-off.
This solution also takes care of the problem with the initial
delay (starts with 1 usec).
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/cxlflash/main.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static void context_reset(struct afu_cmd
atomic64_set(&afu->room, room);
if (room)
goto write_rrin;
- udelay(nretry);
+ udelay(1 << nretry);
} while (nretry++ < MC_ROOM_RETRY_CNT);
pr_err("%s: no cmd_room to send reset\n", __func__);
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ write_rrin:
if (rrin != 0x1)
break;
/* Double delay each time */
- udelay(2 << nretry);
+ udelay(1 << nretry);
} while (nretry++ < MC_ROOM_RETRY_CNT);
}
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ retry:
atomic64_set(&afu->room, room);
if (room)
goto write_ioarrin;
- udelay(nretry);
+ udelay(1 << nretry);
} while (nretry++ < MC_ROOM_RETRY_CNT);
dev_err(dev, "%s: no cmd_room to send 0x%X\n",
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ retry:
* afu->room.
*/
if (nretry++ < MC_ROOM_RETRY_CNT) {
- udelay(nretry);
+ udelay(1 << nretry);
goto retry;
}
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