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    scsi: ses: don't get power status of SES device slot on probe · 75106523
    Mauricio Faria de Oliveira authored
    The commit 08024885 ("ses: Add power_status to SES device slot")
    introduced the 'power_status' attribute to enclosure components and
    the associated callbacks.
    
    There are 2 callbacks available to get the power status of a device:
    1) ses_get_power_status() for 'struct enclosure_component_callbacks'
    2) get_component_power_status() for the sysfs device attribute
    (these are available for kernel-space and user-space, respectively.)
    
    However, despite both methods being available to get power status
    on demand, that commit also introduced a call to get power status
    in ses_enclosure_data_process().
    
    This dramatically increased the total probe time for SCSI devices
    on larger configurations, because ses_enclosure_data_process() is
    called several times during the SCSI devices probe and loops over
    the component devices (but that is another problem, another patch).
    
    That results in a tremendous continuous hammering of SCSI Receive
    Diagnostics commands to the enclosure-services device, which does
    delay the total probe time for the SCSI devices __significantly__:
    
      Originally, ~34 minutes on a system attached to ~170 disks:
    
        [ 9214.490703] mpt3sas version 13.100.00.00 loaded
        ...
        [11256.580231] scsi 17:0:177:0: qdepth(16), tagged(1), simple(0),
                       ordered(0), scsi_level(6), cmd_que(1)
    
      With this patch, it decreased to ~2.5 minutes -- a 13.6x faster
    
        [ 1002.992533] mpt3sas version 13.100.00.00 loaded
        ...
        [ 1151.978831] scsi 11:0:177:0: qdepth(16), tagged(1), simple(0),
                       ordered(0), scsi_level(6), cmd_que(1)
    
    Back to the commit discussion.. on the ses_get_power_status() call
    introduced in ses_enclosure_data_process(): impact of removing it.
    
    That may possibly be in place to initialize the power status value
    on device probe.  However, those 2 functions available to retrieve
    that value _do_ automatically refresh/update it.  So the potential
    benefit would be a direct access of the 'power_status' field which
    does not use the callbacks...
    
    But the only reader of 'struct enclosure_component::power_status'
    is the get_component_power_status() callback for sysfs attribute,
    and it _does_ check for and call the .get_power_status callback,
    (which indeed is defined and implemented by that commit), so the
    power status value is, again, automatically updated.
    
    So, the remaining potential for a direct/non-callback access to
    the power_status attribute would be out-of-tree modules -- well,
    for those, if they are for whatever reason interested in values
    that are set during device probe and not up-to-date by the time
    they need it.. well, that would be curious.
    
    Well, to handle that more properly, set the initial power state
    value to '-1' (i.e., uninitialized) instead of '1' (power 'on'),
    and check for it in that callback which may do an direct access
    to the field value _if_ a callback function is not defined.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Fixes: 08024885 ("ses: Add power_status to SES device slot")
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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