[PATCH RFC] nvme-rdma: support devices with queue size < 32

Marta Rybczynska mrybczyn at kalray.eu
Thu Mar 30 07:23:28 PDT 2017


>>> You say above "we post *up to* 2 work requests", unless you wish to
>>> change that to "we always post at least 2 work requests per queue
>>> entry", Jason is right, your frequency of signaling needs to be X/2
>>> regardless of your CQ size, you need the signaling to control the queue
>>> depth tracking.
>>
>> If you would like to spread things out farther between signaling, then
>> you can modify your send routine to only increment the send counter for
>> actual send requests, ignoring registration WQEs and invalidate WQES,
>> and then signal every X/2 sends.
> 
> Yea, you're right, and not only I got it wrong, I even contradicted my
> own suggestion that was exactly what you and Jason suggested (where is
> the nearest rat-hole...)
> 
> So I suggested to signal every X/2 and Marta reported SQ overflows for
> high queue-dpeth. Marta, at what queue-depth have you seen this?

The remote side had queue depth of 16 or 32 and that's the WQ on the
initiator side that overflows (mlx5_wq_overflow). We're testing with
signalling X/2 and it seems to work.

Marta



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