The method to allocate and free FIB's in the present code utilizes
spinlocks. Multiple IO's have to wait on the spinlock to acquire or free
fibs creating a performance bottleneck.
An alternative solution would be to use block layer tags to keep track
of the fibs allocated and freed. To this end aac_fib_alloc_tag was
created to utilize the blk layer tags to plug into the Fib pool.These
functions are used exclusively in the IO path. 8 fibs are reserved for
the use of AIF management software and utilize the previous spinlock
based implementations.
Signed-off-by: Raghava Aditya Renukunta <RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@pmcs.com>
Reviewed-by: Shane Seymour <shane.seymour@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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