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NVMe: reduce queue depth as workaround for Samsung EPIC SQ errata
authorAshok Vairavan <ashok.vairavan@oracle.com>
Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:31:21 +0000 (14:31 -0800)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Sat, 26 Nov 2016 13:37:05 +0000 (05:37 -0800)
commit881900f628c3bedf653aa677da465ab3b8eddf31
tree0cfbce957e389ad3130bedfa178c07f92c079163
parent620dc702a27f6714abba67d31af145dc659961d0
NVMe: reduce queue depth as workaround for Samsung EPIC SQ errata

Orabug: 25138123

Oracle discovered that the NVMe driver gets SQ completion errors eventually
leading to the device being reset, taken out of the PCI bus tree or kernel
panics when using the default SQ size of 1024 entries (64KB) for Samsung
EPIC NVMe SSDs.

PCIe analyzer tracing by Oracle and Samsung revealed an errata in Samsung's
firmware for EPIC SSDs where these invalid completion entries can occur
when the queues straddle an 8MB DMA address boundary.

This patch works around the errata by detecting these specific devices and
limiting their descriptor queue depth to 64.  This is only for the Samsung
NVMe controllers used in Oracle X-series servers.

There was no noticeable performance impact of reducing queue depths to 64
for these Samsung drives, Oracle X6-2 server, and Oracle VM Server 3.4.2.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Fortin <kyle.fortin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhavesh Davda <bhavesh.davda@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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