On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 02:16:00PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently a RoCE GID entry is removed from the hardware when all
> references to the GID entry drop to zero. This is incorrect.
> GID entry should be removed from the hardware when GID entry deletion
> is requested. This allows to terminate ongoing traffic through such RoCE GID.
>
> While a GID is deleted from the hardware, GID slot in the software GID
> cache is not freed. GID slot is freed once all references of such GID
> are dropped. This continue to ensure that such GID slot of hardware
> is not allocated to new GID entry allocation request. It is allocated
> once all references to GID entry drop.
>
> Fixes: b150c3862d21 ("IB/core: Introduce GID entry reference counts")
> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c | 7 +++----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Applied to for-next
Thanks,
Jason
