This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IB/mlx4: Increase maximal message size under UD QP to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ib-mlx4-increase-maximal-message-size-under-ud-qp.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017 From: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 15:22:26 +0200 Subject: IB/mlx4: Increase maximal message size under UD QP From: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5f22a1d87c5315a98981ecf93cd8de226cffe6ca ] Maximal message should be used as a limit to the max message payload allowed, without the headers. The ConnectX-3 check is done against this value includes the headers. When the payload is 4K this will cause the NIC to drop packets. Increase maximal message to 8K as workaround, this shouldn't change current behaviour because we continue to set the MTU to 4k. To reproduce; set MTU to 4296 on the corresponding interface, for example: ifconfig eth0 mtu 4296 (both server and client) On server: ib_send_bw -c UD -d mlx4_0 -s 4096 -n 1000000 -i1 -m 4096 On client: ib_send_bw -d mlx4_0 -c UD <server_ip> -s 4096 -n 1000000 -i 1 -m 4096 Fixes: 6e0d733d9215 ("IB/mlx4: Allow 4K messages for UD QPs") Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Majd Dibbiny <majd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/qp.c @@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@ static int __mlx4_ib_modify_qp(struct ib context->mtu_msgmax = (IB_MTU_4096 << 5) | ilog2(dev->dev->caps.max_gso_sz); else - context->mtu_msgmax = (IB_MTU_4096 << 5) | 12; + context->mtu_msgmax = (IB_MTU_4096 << 5) | 13; } else if (attr_mask & IB_QP_PATH_MTU) { if (attr->path_mtu < IB_MTU_256 || attr->path_mtu > IB_MTU_4096) { pr_err("path MTU (%u) is invalid\n", Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ib-mlx4-increase-maximal-message-size-under-ud-qp.patch