[PATCH v2 0/4] arbitrary sg lists support

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:30:46PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>
> > > This patch adds an arbitrary sg list support to NVMEoF host for
> > > capable devices (such as RDMA CX4/CX5 HCAs).
> > > During the review we decided to add an helper function to ib_core
> > > that will be used by ULPs in order to avoid code duplication.
> >
> > Hello Max,
> >
> > A question that is not related to the ULP drivers touched by this patch series:
> > some time ago registration of sg-lists with gaps was disabled in the SRP
> > initiator because arbitrary sg-lists triggered CQE dumps in combination with the
> > mlx5 driver. Does this mean that this issue has been resolved? If so, what mlx5
> > driver and/or firmware version are needed to reenable arbitrary sg-list support
> > in the SRP initiator?
>
> I'm concerned about the fact that the SRP issue wasn't resolved. There
> might be a bug hiding there.
>
> Max, Leon, my recollection was that the error syndrome you saw with SRP
> described "too much sgls for a single mr". If this is true, then I still
> think we need a different device capability for it.

I don't remember that Max succeeded to reproduce it.

>
> I'm even thinking we need to remove gaps support from iSER until this
> is addressed.

Better to find the root cause.

Thanks
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