Yes, we are covered here, I took reference of 4.1-rc4 and that series
was pulled in 4.1-rc7.
I will update my test-bench and re-validate the numbers.
-Regards
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:45 AM, Devesh Sharma <devesh.sharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Increasing the default slot table entries will increase the MR
>> requirements per mount.
>
> Yes, but:
>
>> Currently, with 32 as default Client ends up allocating 2178 frmrs
>> (ref: kernel 4.1-rc4) for a single mount. With 128 frmr requirement
>> for startup would be 8448.
>
> Commit 40c6ed0c8a7f ("xprtrdma: Reduce per-transport MR allocation”)
> is supposed to address this. This commit is in 4.1.
>
> The number of MRs per credit is now 256 divided by the HCA’s
> max_fast_reg_page_list_len. See frwr_op_open().
>
> For mlx4 the number of MRs per credit is just 1, for example.
>
>
>> 8K+ MRs per mount just for start-up, I am a little doubtful about this
>> change. We can always release-note that "for better performance
>> increase the slot table entries by echo 128 >
>> /proc/sys/sunrpc/rdma_slot_table_entries"
>>
>> -Regards
>> Devesh
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> In preparation for similar increases on NFS/RDMA servers, bump the
>>> advertised credit limit for RPC/RDMA to 128. This allocates some
>>> extra resources, but the client will continue to allow only the
>>> number of RPCs in flight that the server requests via its advertised
>>> credit limit.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> include/linux/sunrpc/xprtrdma.h | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtrdma.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtrdma.h
>>> index b176130..b7b279b 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtrdma.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprtrdma.h
>>> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
>>> * a single chunk type per message is supported currently.
>>> */
>>> #define RPCRDMA_MIN_SLOT_TABLE (2U)
>>> -#define RPCRDMA_DEF_SLOT_TABLE (32U)
>>> +#define RPCRDMA_DEF_SLOT_TABLE (128U)
>>> #define RPCRDMA_MAX_SLOT_TABLE (256U)
>>>
>>> #define RPCRDMA_DEF_INLINE (1024) /* default inline max */
>>>
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