Re: [PATCH] infiniband:cma: change iboe packet life time from 18 to 16

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On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 09:00:26AM +0800, Chao Leng wrote:
> The ack timeout retransmission time is affected by the following two
> factors: one is packet life time, another is the HCA processing time.
> Now the default packet lifetime(CMA_IBOE_PACKET_LIFETIME) is 18.
> That means the minimum ack timeout is 2 seconds(2^(18+1)*4us=2.097seconds).
> The packet lifetime means the maximum transmission time of packets
> on the network, 2 seconds is too long.
> Assume the network is a clos topology with three layers, every packet
> will pass through five hops of switches. Assume the buffer of every
> switch is 128MB and the port transmission rate is 25 Gbit/s,
> the maximum transmission time of the packet is 200ms(128MB*5/25Gbit/s).
> Add double redundancy, it is less than 500ms.
> So change the CMA_IBOE_PACKET_LIFETIME to 16,
> the maximum transmission time of the packet will be about 500+ms,
> it is long enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chao Leng <lengchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason



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