scsi: lpfc: Fix random heartbeat timeouts during heavy IO
NVME targets appear to randomly disconnect from the initiator when running heavy IO. The error is due to the host aggregate (across all controllers) io load was beyond the maximum exchange count for nvme on the adapter. The driver was properly returning a resource busy status, but the io load was so great heartbeat commands would be bounced and not have a successful retry within the fuzz amount for the nvme heartbeat (yes, a very high io load!). Thus the target was terminating the controller due to a keep alive failure. Resolve by reserving a few exchanges (by counters) which can be used when the adapter is out of normal exchanges and the command is a NVME heartbeat command. As counters are used, while the reserved command is outstanding, as soon as any other exchange completes, the counters are adjusted and the reserved count is replenished. The heartbeat completes execution in a normal fashion. Signed-off-by: Dick Kennedy <dick.kennedy@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@broadcom.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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