Re: SQ overflow seen running isert traffic with high block sizes

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 01:01:58AM -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> Hi Shiraz & Co,
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 17:49 +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote:
> > > Subject: Re: SQ overflow seen running isert traffic with high block sizes
> > > 
> > > 
> > > First, would it be helpful to limit maximum payload size per I/O for consumers
> > > based on number of iser-target sq hw sges..?
> > > 
> > Assuming data is not able to be fast registered as if virtually contiguous;
> > artificially limiting the data size might not be the best solution.
> > 
> > But max SGEs does need to be exposed higher. Somewhere in the stack,
> > there might need to be multiple WRs submitted or data copied.
> > 
> 
> Sagi..?
> 

> 
> For reference, what is i40iw's max_send_sg reporting..?

3

> 
> Is max_data_sg_nents=32 + 4k pages = 128K the largest MAX TRANSFER
> LENGTH to avoid consistent SQ overflow as-is with i40iw..?

For the configuration I am testing, max_data_sg_nents=32 & 64 worked,
and the SQ overflow issue reproduced at 128.

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