From: Yi Zou <[email protected]>

This adds fcoe_ddp_min as a module parameter for fcoe module to:
/sys/module/fcoe/parameters/ddp_min

It is observed that for some hardware, particularly Intel 825599, there is too
much overhead in setting up context for direct data placement (DDP) read when
the requested read I/O size is small. This is added as a module parameter for
performance tuning and is set as 0 by default and user can change this based
on their own hardware.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <[email protected]>
---

 drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
index e32a0ed..a39d370 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("Open-FCoE.org");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("FCoE");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
 
+/* Performance tuning parameters for fcoe */
+static unsigned int fcoe_ddp_min;
+module_param_named(ddp_min, fcoe_ddp_min, uint, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(ddp_min, "Minimum I/O size in bytes for "     \
+                "Direct Data Placement (DDP).");
+
 /* fcoe host list */
 LIST_HEAD(fcoe_hostlist);
 DEFINE_RWLOCK(fcoe_hostlist_lock);
@@ -414,7 +420,8 @@ static int fcoe_shost_config(struct fc_lport *lp, struct 
Scsi_Host *shost,
  */
 bool fcoe_oem_match(struct fc_frame *fp)
 {
-       return fc_fcp_is_read(fr_fsp(fp));
+       return fc_fcp_is_read(fr_fsp(fp)) &&
+               (fr_fsp(fp)->data_len > fcoe_ddp_min);
 }
 
 /**

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