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authorKashyap, Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>2010-11-13 04:34:06 +0530
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>2010-12-21 12:24:04 -0600
commit35f805b52c94f8e6cb22907ef32517132a15cb96 (patch)
treeeb26ec6db8b4093d5659eb0f351b1dbc228c5359 /drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_transport.c
parent6cb8ef573fd4c2bd72248f492fe336133660148d (diff)
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Create a pool of chain buffer instead of dedicated per IOs
Create a pool of chain buffers, instead of dedicated per IO: This enahancment is to address memory allocation failure when asking for more than 2300 IOs per host. There is just not enough contiquious DMA physical memory to make one single allocation to hold both message frames and chain buffers when asking for more than 2300 request. In order to address this problem we will have to allocate memory for each chain buffer in a seperate individual memory allocation, placing each chain element of 128 bytes onto a pool of available chains, which can be shared amoung all request. Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
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