From: Quinn Tran <quinn.t...@cavium.com>

This patch initializes port speed so that firmware does not
set lower operating speed. Setting lower speed in firmware
impacts WRITE perfomance.

Fixes: 726b85487067 ("qla2xxx: Add framework for async fabric discovery")
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Singed-off-by: Quinn Tran <quinn.t...@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madh...@cavium.com>
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <lober...@redhat.com>
---
Hi Martin, 

This patch fixes initialization issue for the driver which results into setting 
lower
speed for WRITE transfer. In our latest experiments we have seen improvments of 
47%
for WRITE data 

Please apply this patch to 4.20/scsi-fixes for 4.20-rcX inclusion at your 
earliest convenience.

Thanks,
Himanshu
---
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
index 36d67230c3b1..92d2c6866e35 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c
@@ -4791,6 +4791,7 @@ qla2x00_alloc_fcport(scsi_qla_host_t *vha, gfp_t flags)
        fcport->loop_id = FC_NO_LOOP_ID;
        qla2x00_set_fcport_state(fcport, FCS_UNCONFIGURED);
        fcport->supported_classes = FC_COS_UNSPECIFIED;
+       fcport->fp_speed = PORT_SPEED_UNKNOWN;
 
        fcport->ct_desc.ct_sns = dma_alloc_coherent(&vha->hw->pdev->dev,
                sizeof(struct ct_sns_pkt), &fcport->ct_desc.ct_sns_dma,
-- 
2.12.0

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