Rdma write with inline flag when sending small packages, whose length is shorter than the qp's max_inline_data, can help reducing latency. In my test environment, which are 2 VMs running on the same physical host and whose NICs(ConnectX-4Lx) are working on SR-IOV mode, qperf shows 0.5us-0.7us improvement in latency. Test command: server: smc_run taskset -c 1 qperf client: smc_run taskset -c 1 qperf <server ip> -oo \ msg_size:1:2K:*2 -t 30 -vu tcp_lat The results shown below: msgsize before after 1B 11.2 us 10.6 us (-0.6 us) 2B 11.2 us 10.7 us (-0.5 us) 4B 11.3 us 10.7 us (-0.6 us) 8B 11.2 us 10.6 us (-0.6 us) 16B 11.3 us 10.7 us (-0.6 us) 32B 11.3 us 10.6 us (-0.7 us) 64B 11.2 us 11.2 us (0 us) 128B 11.2 us 11.2 us (0 us) 256B 11.2 us 11.2 us (0 us) 512B 11.4 us 11.3 us (-0.1 us) 1KB 11.4 us 11.5 us (0.1 us) 2KB 11.5 us 11.5 us (0 us) Signed-off-by: Guangguan Wang <guangguan.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/smc/smc_tx.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/smc/smc_tx.c b/net/smc/smc_tx.c index 98ca9229fe87..4294259b3588 100644 --- a/net/smc/smc_tx.c +++ b/net/smc/smc_tx.c @@ -391,12 +391,20 @@ static int smcr_tx_rdma_writes(struct smc_connection *conn, size_t len, int rc; for (dstchunk = 0; dstchunk < 2; dstchunk++) { - struct ib_sge *sge = - wr_rdma_buf->wr_tx_rdma[dstchunk].wr.sg_list; + struct ib_rdma_wr *wr = &wr_rdma_buf->wr_tx_rdma[dstchunk]; + struct ib_sge *sge = wr->wr.sg_list; + u64 base_addr = dma_addr; + + if (dst_len <= link->qp_attr.cap.max_inline_data) { + base_addr = (u64)conn->sndbuf_desc->cpu_addr; + wr->wr.send_flags |= IB_SEND_INLINE; + } else { + wr->wr.send_flags &= ~IB_SEND_INLINE; + } num_sges = 0; for (srcchunk = 0; srcchunk < 2; srcchunk++) { - sge[srcchunk].addr = dma_addr + src_off; + sge[srcchunk].addr = base_addr + src_off; sge[srcchunk].length = src_len; num_sges++; @@ -410,8 +418,7 @@ static int smcr_tx_rdma_writes(struct smc_connection *conn, size_t len, src_len = dst_len - src_len; /* remainder */ src_len_sum += src_len; } - rc = smc_tx_rdma_write(conn, dst_off, num_sges, - &wr_rdma_buf->wr_tx_rdma[dstchunk]); + rc = smc_tx_rdma_write(conn, dst_off, num_sges, wr); if (rc) return rc; if (dst_len_sum == len) -- 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128)