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-rw-r--r--drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c26
-rw-r--r--drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.h1
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c b/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c
index b91142b8482c7f..2b889d91e673d3 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c
+++ b/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
* Grep for inline FIXME comments below.
*/
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
@@ -127,17 +128,21 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(serialize_io, "Serialize requests coming from SCSI drivers "
"(default = Y, faster but buggy = N)");
/*
- * Bump up max_sectors if you'd like to support very large sized
- * transfers. Please note that some older sbp2 bridge chips are broken for
- * transfers greater or equal to 128KB. Default is a value of 255
- * sectors, or just under 128KB (at 512 byte sector size). I can note that
- * the Oxsemi sbp2 chipsets have no problems supporting very large
- * transfer sizes.
+ * Adjust max_sectors if you'd like to influence how many sectors each SCSI
+ * command can transfer at most. Please note that some older SBP-2 bridge
+ * chips are broken for transfers greater or equal to 128KB, therefore
+ * max_sectors used to be a safe 255 sectors for many years. We now have a
+ * default of 0 here which means that we let the SCSI stack choose a limit.
+ *
+ * The SBP2_WORKAROUND_128K_MAX_TRANS flag, if set either in the workarounds
+ * module parameter or in the sbp2_workarounds_table[], will override the
+ * value of max_sectors. We should use sbp2_workarounds_table[] to cover any
+ * bridge chip which becomes known to need the 255 sectors limit.
*/
-static int sbp2_max_sectors = SBP2_MAX_SECTORS;
+static int sbp2_max_sectors;
module_param_named(max_sectors, sbp2_max_sectors, int, 0444);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_sectors, "Change max sectors per I/O supported "
- "(default = " __stringify(SBP2_MAX_SECTORS) ")");
+ "(default = 0 = use SCSI stack's default)");
/*
* Exclusive login to sbp2 device? In most cases, the sbp2 driver should
@@ -1985,6 +1990,8 @@ static int sbp2scsi_slave_configure(struct scsi_device *sdev)
sdev->skip_ms_page_8 = 1;
if (lu->workarounds & SBP2_WORKAROUND_FIX_CAPACITY)
sdev->fix_capacity = 1;
+ if (lu->workarounds & SBP2_WORKAROUND_128K_MAX_TRANS)
+ blk_queue_max_sectors(sdev->request_queue, 128 * 1024 / 512);
return 0;
}
@@ -2091,9 +2098,6 @@ static int sbp2_module_init(void)
sbp2_shost_template.cmd_per_lun = 1;
}
- if (sbp2_default_workarounds & SBP2_WORKAROUND_128K_MAX_TRANS &&
- (sbp2_max_sectors * 512) > (128 * 1024))
- sbp2_max_sectors = 128 * 1024 / 512;
sbp2_shost_template.max_sectors = sbp2_max_sectors;
hpsb_register_highlevel(&sbp2_highlevel);
diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.h b/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.h
index 333a4bb7674349..d2ecb0d8a1bba4 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.h
+++ b/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.h
@@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ struct sbp2_status_block {
*/
#define SBP2_MAX_SG_ELEMENT_LENGTH 0xf000
-#define SBP2_MAX_SECTORS 255
/* There is no real limitation of the queue depth (i.e. length of the linked
* list of command ORBs) at the target. The chosen depth is merely an
* implementation detail of the sbp2 driver. */