On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 08:28 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-06-03 at 22:09 -0700, Himanshu Madhani wrote:
> > This patch prevents driver from setting lower default speed
> > of 1 GB/sec, if the switch does not support Get Port Speed
> > Capabilities (GPSC) command. Setting this default speed results
> > into much lower write performance for large sequential WRITE.
> > This patch modifies driver to check for gpsc_supported flags and
> > prevents driver from issuing MBC_SET_PORT_PARAM (001Ah) to set
> > default speed of 1 GB/sec. If driver does not send this mailbox
> > command, firmware assumes maximum supported link speed and will
> > operate at the max speed.
> > 
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <[email protected]>
> 
> Is this a regression? In other words, does this patch need a "Fixes:" tag?

It is, it appears to have been introduced by the series which updated
the driver to 10.00.00.04-k.  It seems to have been introduced somewhere 
between:

82abdcaf3e "scsi: qla2xxx: Allow target mode to accept PRLI in dual mode"

and

f352eeb754 "scsi: qla2xxx: Add ability to use GPNFT/GNNFT for RSCN handling"

The regression is definitely present in:

6a2cf8d366 "scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crashes in qla2x00_probe_one on probe failure"

Unfortunately I was not able to bisect further due to crashes on boot
and a problem with LUN discovery that was not fixed until a later patch
that does not apply easily without the many intervening patches.

-Ewan

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.
> 
> 
> 


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