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    [SCSI] mpt2sas: New feature - Fast Load Support · 921cd802
    nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com authored
    New feature Fast Load Support.
    
    (1)Asynchronous SCSI scanning: This will allow the drivers to scan
    for devices in parallel while other device drivers are loading at
    the same time. This will improve the amount of time it takes for the
    OS to load.
    
    (2) Reporting Devices while port enable is active: This feature will
    allow devices to be reported to OS immediately while port enable is
    active. The previous implementation waits for port enable to complete,
    and then report devices. This feature is only enabled on IT firmware
    configurations when there are no boot device configured in BIOS Configuration
    Utility, else the driver will wait till port enable completes reporting
    devices. For IR firmware, this feature is turned off. This feature is to
    address large SAS topologies (>100 drives) when the boot OS is using onboard
    SATA device, in other words, the boot devices is not
    connected to our controller.
    
    (3) Scanning for devices after diagnostic reset completes: A new routine
    _scsih_scan_start is added. This will scan the expander pages, IR pages,
    and sas device pages, then reporting new devices to SCSI Mid layer. It
    seems the driver is not supporting adding devices while diagnostic reset
    is active. Apparently this is due to the sanity checks on
    ioc->shost_recovery flag throughout the context of kernel work thread FIFO,
    and the mpt2sas_fw_work.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@lsi.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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