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cciss: add performant mode support for Stars/Sirius
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Add a mode of controller operation called Performant Mode.  Even though
cciss has been deprecated in favor of hpsa there are new controllers due
out next year that HP must support in older vendor distros.  Vendors
require all fixes/features be upstream.  These new controllers support
only 16 commands in simple mode but support up to 1024 in performant mode.
This requires us to add this support at this late date.

The performant mode transport minimizes host PCI accesses by performinf
many completions per read.  PCI writes are posted so the host can write
then immediately get off the bus not waiting for the writwe to complete to
the target.  In the context of performant mode the host read out to a
controller pulls all posted writes into host memory ensuring the reply
queue is coherent.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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mikem13 authored and Jens Axboe committed Aug 7, 2010
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