Re: [PATCH] RDMA/core: reduce IB_POLL_BATCH constant

[Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>]

On 2/21/2018 3:44 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>>> On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 21:59 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> /* # of WCs to poll for with a single call to ib_poll_cq */
>>>> -#define IB_POLL_BATCH            16
>>>> +#define IB_POLL_BATCH            8
>>>
>>> The purpose of batch polling is to minimize contention on the cq 
>>> spinlock.
>>> Reducing the IB_POLL_BATCH constant may affect performance 
>>> negatively. Has
>>> the performance impact of this change been verified for all affected 
>>> drivers
>>> (ib_srp, ib_srpt, ib_iser, ib_isert, NVMeOF, NVMeOF target, SMB 
>>> Direct, NFS
>>> over RDMA, ...)?
>>
>> Only the users of the DIRECT polling method use an on-stack
>> array of ib_wc's. This is only the SRP drivers.
>>
>> The other two modes have use of a dynamically allocated array
>> of ib_wc's that hangs off the ib_cq. These shouldn't need any
>> reduction in the size of this array, and they are the common
>> case.
>>
>> IMO a better solution would be to change ib_process_cq_direct
>> to use a smaller on-stack array, and leave IB_POLL_BATCH alone.
> 
> The only reason why I added this array on-stack was to allow consumers
> that did not use ib_alloc_cq api to call it, but that seems like a
> wrong decision when thinking it over again (as probably these users
> did not set the wr_cqe correctly).
> 
> How about we make ib_process_cq_direct use the cq wc array and add
> a WARN_ON statement (and fail it gracefully) if the caller used this
> API without calling ib_alloc_cq?

but we tried to avoid cuncurrent access to cq->wc.
Why can't we use the solution I wrote above ?

> 
> -- 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cq.c
> index bc79ca8215d7..cd3e9e124834 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cq.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cq.c
> @@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
>   #define IB_POLL_FLAGS \
>          (IB_CQ_NEXT_COMP | IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS)
> 
> -static int __ib_process_cq(struct ib_cq *cq, int budget, struct ib_wc 
> *poll_wc)
> +static int __ib_process_cq(struct ib_cq *cq, int budget)
>   {
>          int i, n, completed = 0;
> -       struct ib_wc *wcs = poll_wc ? : cq->wc;
> +       struct ib_wc *wcs = cq->wc;
> 
>          /*
>           * budget might be (-1) if the caller does not
> @@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ static int __ib_process_cq(struct ib_cq *cq, int 
> budget, struct ib_wc *poll_wc)
>    */
>   int ib_process_cq_direct(struct ib_cq *cq, int budget)
>   {
> -       struct ib_wc wcs[IB_POLL_BATCH];
> -
> -       return __ib_process_cq(cq, budget, wcs);
> +       if (unlikely(WARN_ON_ONCE(!cq->wc)))
> +               return 0;
> +       return __ib_process_cq(cq, budget);
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_process_cq_direct);
> 
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static int ib_poll_handler(struct irq_poll *iop, int 
> budget)
>          struct ib_cq *cq = container_of(iop, struct ib_cq, iop);
>          int completed;
> 
> -       completed = __ib_process_cq(cq, budget, NULL);
> +       completed = __ib_process_cq(cq, budget);
>          if (completed < budget) {
>                  irq_poll_complete(&cq->iop);
>                  if (ib_req_notify_cq(cq, IB_POLL_FLAGS) > 0)
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static void ib_cq_poll_work(struct work_struct *work)
>          struct ib_cq *cq = container_of(work, struct ib_cq, work);
>          int completed;
> 
> -       completed = __ib_process_cq(cq, IB_POLL_BUDGET_WORKQUEUE, NULL);
> +       completed = __ib_process_cq(cq, IB_POLL_BUDGET_WORKQUEUE);
>          if (completed >= IB_POLL_BUDGET_WORKQUEUE ||
>              ib_req_notify_cq(cq, IB_POLL_FLAGS) > 0)
>                  queue_work(ib_comp_wq, &cq->work);
> -- 
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