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

[Marta Rybczynska]

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> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:04:09AM +0100, Marta Rybczynska wrote:
>> In the case of small NVMe-oF queue size (<32) we may enter
>> a deadlock caused by the fact that the IB completions aren't sent
>> waiting for 32 and the send queue will fill up.
>> 
>> The error is seen as (using mlx5):
>> [ 2048.693355] mlx5_0:mlx5_ib_post_send:3765:(pid 7273):
>> [ 2048.693360] nvme nvme1: nvme_rdma_post_send failed with error code -12
>> 
>> The patch doesn't change the behaviour for remote devices with
>> larger queues.
> 
> Thanks, this looks useful.  But wouldn't it be better to do something
> like queue_size divided by 2 or 4 to get a better refill latency?

That's an interesting question. The max number of requests is already at 3 or 4 times
of the queue size because of different message types (see Sam's original
message in 'NVMe RDMA driver: CX4 send queue fills up when nvme queue depth is low').
I guess it would have inflence on configs with bigger latency.

I would like to have Sagi's view on this as he's the one who has changed that
part in the iSER initiator in 6df5a128f0fde6315a44e80b30412997147f5efd

Marta