On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:51:11PM -0500, Anna Schumaker wrote:
>
>
> On 02/28/2018 03:30 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > With FRWR, the client transport can perform memory registration and
> > post a Send with just a single ib_post_send.
> >
> > This reduces contention between the send_request path and the Send
> > Completion handlers, and reduces the overhead of registering a chunk
> > that has multiple segments.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/fmr_ops.c | 11 ++++++++
> > net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/frwr_ops.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> > net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/verbs.c | 3 +-
> > net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/xprt_rdma.h | 2 ++
> > 4 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/fmr_ops.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/fmr_ops.c
> > index 629e539..5cc68a8 100644
> > +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/fmr_ops.c
> > @@ -251,6 +251,16 @@ enum {
> > return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
> > }
> >
> > +/* Post Send WR containing the RPC Call message.
> > + */
> > +static int
> > +fmr_op_send(struct rpcrdma_ia *ia, struct rpcrdma_req *req)
> > +{
> > + struct ib_send_wr *bad_wr;
> > +
> > + return ib_post_send(ia->ri_id->qp, &req->rl_sendctx->sc_wr, &bad_wr);
>
> I wish there was a bad_wr null-check in ib_post_send() (or in the
> infiniband drivers) so you don't have to declare a variable that's
> never used again. Coordinating that might be more work than it's
> worth, though.
It is a good point, I actually don't think we have any user in kernel
of bad_wr ..
Would prefer to just drop the parameter and add a new function call if
really, really needed.
Jason
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