[PATCH 0/3] Fix request completion holes
Max Gurtovoy
maxg at mellanox.com
Wed Nov 1 15:23:01 PDT 2017
On 11/1/2017 7:26 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>
>> (4) Send signal with invalidation signal w/o moderation 3.4M / 4.6M
>
> What about remote invalidation? That is how it will usually be used...
We haven't tested remote invalidation yet.
>
>> (5) Send signal with invalidation signal w/ moderation 6.2M / 11.8M
>
> What about latency effects? Any noticeable change?
>
>> I understand that (1), (2) and (3) are invalid, the performance
>> reduction induce by mode (4) need to motivate us to enable cqe/event
>> moderation as soon as possible.
>
> Well good, it means you can help test my adaptive coalescing code :)
Of course.
>
> May I ask what moderation parameters did you use? it will be useful
> to pin down the profile levels the adaptive moderator would bounce
> between.
Sure, I mentioned the params earlier (cq_completions=32 cq_timeout=16).
Sagi,
As we can see from our results, the changes made in this patchset must
be pushed together with some cq moderation (adaptive or manual option
meanwhile). In the testing, I created a module parameter but we can
create a different option for the user to configure.
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