On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:36:12AM +0300, Yuval Shaia wrote:
> Hi Adit,
> Please see my comments inline.
>
> Besides that I have no more comment for this patch.
>
> Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.sh...@oracle.com>
>
> Yuval
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:07:29AM +0000, Adit Ranadive wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:43:37 -0700, Yuval Shaia wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:49:19PM -0700, Adit Ranadive wrote:
> > > > +
> > > > +static int pvrdma_poll_one(struct pvrdma_cq *cq, struct pvrdma_qp
> > > **cur_qp,
> > > > + struct ib_wc *wc)
> > > > +{
> > > > + struct pvrdma_dev *dev = to_vdev(cq->ibcq.device);
> > > > + int has_data;
> > > > + unsigned int head;
> > > > + bool tried = false;
> > > > + struct pvrdma_cqe *cqe;
> > > > +
> > > > +retry:
> > > > + has_data = pvrdma_idx_ring_has_data(&cq->ring_state->rx,
> > > > + cq->ibcq.cqe, &head);
> > > > + if (has_data == 0) {
> > > > + if (tried)
> > > > + return -EAGAIN;
> > > > +
> > > > + /* Pass down POLL to give physical HCA a chance to
> > > > poll. */
> > > > + pvrdma_write_uar_cq(dev, cq->cq_handle |
> > > PVRDMA_UAR_CQ_POLL);
> > > > +
> > > > + tried = true;
> > > > + goto retry;
> > > > + } else if (has_data == PVRDMA_INVALID_IDX) {
> > >
> > > I didn't went throw the entire life cycle of RX-ring's head and tail but
> > > you
> > > need to make sure that PVRDMA_INVALID_IDX error is recoverable one, i.e
> > > there is probability that in the next call to pvrdma_poll_one it will be
> > > fine.
> > > Otherwise it is an endless loop.
> >
> > We have never run into this issue internally but I don't think we can
> > recover here
>
> I briefly reviewed the life cycle of RX-ring's head and tail and didn't
> caught any suspicious place that might corrupt it.
> So glad to see that you never encountered this case.
>
> > in the driver. The only way to recover would be to destroy and recreate the
> > CQ
> > which we shouldn't do since it could be used by multiple QPs.
>
> Agree.
> But don't they hit the same problem too?
>
> > We don't have a way yet to recover in the device. Once we add that this
> > check
> > should go away.
>
> To be honest i have no idea how to do that - i was expecting driver's vendors
> to come up with an ideas :)
> I once came up with an idea to force restart of the driver but it was
> rejected.
>
> >
> > The reason I returned an error value from poll_cq in v3 was to break the
> > possible
> > loop so that it might give clients a chance to recover. But since poll_cq
> > is not expected
> > to fail I just log the device error here. I can revert to that version if
> > you want to break
> > the possible loop.
>
> Clients (ULPs) cannot recover from this case. They even do not check the
> reason of the error and treats any error as -EAGAIN.It is because poll_one is not expected to fall. > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
