I'm seeing a large number of allocation errors originating from the Mellanox IB
driver when booting the 4.2-rc1 kernel on a 4096cpu 32TB memory system:
8<---
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 64; reverting to legacy
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 65; reverting to legacy
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 66; reverting to legacy
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 67; reverting to legacy
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 68; reverting to legacy
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 69; reverting to legacy
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 70; reverting to legacy
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 71; reverting to legacy
......
<mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 123; reverting to legacy
--->8
Where the failing function is in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c:
8<---
2042 static void mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs(struct mlx4_dev *dev, struct mlx4_ib_dev *ibdev)
...
2075 /* Set IRQ for specific name (per ring) */
2076 if (mlx4_assign_eq(dev, name, NULL,
2077 &ibdev->eq_table[eq])) {
2078 /* Use legacy (same as mlx4_en driver) */
2079 pr_warn("Can't allocate EQ %d; reverting to legacy\n", eq);
2080 ibdev->eq_table[eq] =
2081 (eq % dev->caps.num_comp_vectors);
2082 }
--->8
The problem doesn't appear to be fatal. At this point I am unsure if this is
actually expected behavior, so I'm looking for some insight into the issue.
At first we believed the problem to be with request_irq, but after writing in
some debug code that mlx4_assign_eq returned -28, indicating that vec was
never assigned:
8<---
@@ -1401,6 +1402,7 @@ int mlx4_assign_eq(struct mlx4_dev *dev, char *name, struct cpu_rmap *rmap,
if (vec) {
*vector = vec;
} else {
+ pr_crit("!!! debug: mlx4_assign_eq - last err %d\n", err);
*vector = 0;
err = (i == dev->caps.comp_pool) ? -ENOSPC : err;
}
--->8
8<---
[ 1565.416273] !!! debug: mlx4_assign_eq - last err 0
[ 1565.416275] <mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: !!! debug: mlx4_assign_eq returned -28
[ 1565.416277] <mlx4_ib> mlx4_ib_alloc_eqs: Can't allocate EQ 64; reverting to legacy
--->8
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Andrew Banman
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