I am seeing EQ overruns in SDP stress tests: if the CQ completion
handler arms a CQ, this could generate more EQEs, so that EQ will
never get empty and consumer index will never get updated.

This is similiar to what we have with command interface:
                /*
                 * cmd_event() may add more commands.
                 * The card will think the queue has overflowed if
                 * we don't tell it we've been processing events.
                 */
However, for completion events, we *don't* want to update the consumer
index on each event. So, perform EQ doorbell coalescing: allocate EQs
with some spare EQEs, and update once we run out of them.

The value 0x80 was selected to avoid any performance impact.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---

 drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c |   28 +++++++++++++++-------------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

92898522e3ee1a0ba54140aad1974d9e868f74ae
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c 
b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c
index e8a948f..2eabb27 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_eq.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
 enum {
        MTHCA_NUM_ASYNC_EQE = 0x80,
        MTHCA_NUM_CMD_EQE   = 0x80,
+       MTHCA_NUM_SPARE_EQE = 0x80,
        MTHCA_EQ_ENTRY_SIZE = 0x20
 };
 
@@ -277,11 +278,10 @@ static int mthca_eq_int(struct mthca_dev
 {
        struct mthca_eqe *eqe;
        int disarm_cqn;
-       int  eqes_found = 0;
+       int eqes_found = 0;
+       int set_ci = 0;
 
        while ((eqe = next_eqe_sw(eq))) {
-               int set_ci = 0;
-
                /*
                 * Make sure we read EQ entry contents after we've
                 * checked the ownership bit.
@@ -345,12 +345,6 @@ static int mthca_eq_int(struct mthca_dev
                                        be16_to_cpu(eqe->event.cmd.token),
                                        eqe->event.cmd.status,
                                        be64_to_cpu(eqe->event.cmd.out_param));
-                       /*
-                        * cmd_event() may add more commands.
-                        * The card will think the queue has overflowed if
-                        * we don't tell it we've been processing events.
-                        */
-                       set_ci = 1;
                        break;
 
                case MTHCA_EVENT_TYPE_PORT_CHANGE:
@@ -385,8 +379,16 @@ static int mthca_eq_int(struct mthca_dev
                set_eqe_hw(eqe);
                ++eq->cons_index;
                eqes_found = 1;
+               ++set_ci;
 
-               if (unlikely(set_ci)) {
+               /*
+                * The HCA will think the queue has overflowed if we
+                * don't tell it we've been processing events.  We
+                * create our EQs with MTHCA_NUM_SPARE_EQE extra
+                * entries, so we must update our consumer index at
+                * least that often.
+                */
+               if (unlikely(set_ci >= MTHCA_NUM_SPARE_EQE)) {
                        /*
                         * Conditional on hca_type is OK here because
                         * this is a rare case, not the fast path.
@@ -862,19 +864,19 @@ int __devinit mthca_init_eq_table(struct
        intr = (dev->mthca_flags & MTHCA_FLAG_MSI) ?
                128 : dev->eq_table.inta_pin;
 
-       err = mthca_create_eq(dev, dev->limits.num_cqs,
+       err = mthca_create_eq(dev, dev->limits.num_cqs + MTHCA_NUM_SPARE_EQE,
                              (dev->mthca_flags & MTHCA_FLAG_MSI_X) ? 128 : 
intr,
                              &dev->eq_table.eq[MTHCA_EQ_COMP]);
        if (err)
                goto err_out_unmap;
 
-       err = mthca_create_eq(dev, MTHCA_NUM_ASYNC_EQE,
+       err = mthca_create_eq(dev, MTHCA_NUM_ASYNC_EQE + MTHCA_NUM_SPARE_EQE,
                              (dev->mthca_flags & MTHCA_FLAG_MSI_X) ? 129 : 
intr,
                              &dev->eq_table.eq[MTHCA_EQ_ASYNC]);
        if (err)
                goto err_out_comp;
 
-       err = mthca_create_eq(dev, MTHCA_NUM_CMD_EQE,
+       err = mthca_create_eq(dev, MTHCA_NUM_CMD_EQE + MTHCA_NUM_SPARE_EQE,
                              (dev->mthca_flags & MTHCA_FLAG_MSI_X) ? 130 : 
intr,
                              &dev->eq_table.eq[MTHCA_EQ_CMD]);
        if (err)
-- 
1.0.7
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