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    scsi: lpfc: Adapt partitioned XRI lists to efficient sharing · c490850a
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    The XRI get/put lists were partitioned per hardware queue. However, the
    adapter rarely had sufficient resources to give a large number of resources
    per queue. As such, it became common for a cpu to encounter a lack of XRI
    resource and request the upper io stack to retry after returning a BUSY
    condition. This occurred even though other cpus were idle and not using
    their resources.
    
    Create as efficient a scheme as possible to move resources to the cpus that
    need them. Each cpu maintains a small private pool which it allocates from
    for io. There is a watermark that the cpu attempts to keep in the private
    pool.  The private pool, when empty, pulls from a global pool from the
    cpu. When the cpu's global pool is empty it will pull from other cpu's
    global pool. As there many cpu global pools (1 per cpu or hardware queue
    count) and as each cpu selects what cpu to pull from at different rates and
    at different times, it creates a radomizing effect that minimizes the
    number of cpu's that will contend with each other when the steal XRI's from
    another cpu's global pool.
    
    On io completion, a cpu will push the XRI back on to its private pool.  A
    watermark level is maintained for the private pool such that when it is
    exceeded it will move XRI's to the CPU global pool so that other cpu's may
    allocate them.
    
    On NVME, as heartbeat commands are critical to get placed on the wire, a
    single expedite pool is maintained. When a heartbeat is to be sent, it will
    allocate an XRI from the expedite pool rather than the normal cpu
    private/global pools. On any io completion, if a reduction in the expedite
    pools is seen, it will be replenished before the XRI is placed on the cpu
    private pool.
    
    Statistics are added to aid understanding the XRI levels on each cpu and
    their behaviors.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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