Re: [PATCH v4 01/14] svcrdma: Reduce the number of rdma_rw contexts per-QP

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On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 10:13:00AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On 5/6/25 9:55 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 06:40:25AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 10:17:22AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >>> On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 06:08:59AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 03:36:49PM -0400, cel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>>>> qp_attr.cap.max_rdma_ctxs. The QP's actual Send Queue length is on
> >>>>> the order of the sum of qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr and a factor times
> >>>>> qp_attr.cap.max_rdma_ctxs. The factor can be up to three, depending
> >>>>> on whether MR operations are required before RDMA Reads.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This limit is not visible to RDMA consumers via dev->attrs. When the
> >>>>> limit is surpassed, QP creation fails with -ENOMEM. For example:
> >>>>
> >>>> Can we find a way to expose this limit from the HCA drivers and the
> >>>> RDMA core?
> >>>
> >>> Shouldn't it be max_qp_wr?
> >>
> >> Does that allow for arbitrary combination of different WRs?  
> > 
> > I think it is supposed to be the maximum QP WR depth you can create..
> > 
> > A QP shouldn't behave differently depending on the WR operation, each
> > one takes one WR entry.
> > 
> > Chuck do you know differently?
> 
> qp_attr.cap.max_rdma_ctxs reserves a number of SQEs over and above
> qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr. The sum of those two cannot exceed max_qp_wr,
> of course.

Yes

> But there is a multiplier, due to whether the device wants a
> registration and invalidation WR in addition to each RDMA Read WR.

Yes, but both of these are in the rdma rw layer
 
> Further, in drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/qp.c :: calc_sq_size
> 
>         wq_size = roundup_pow_of_two(attr->cap.max_send_wr * wqe_size);
>         qp->sq.wqe_cnt = wq_size / MLX5_SEND_WQE_BB;
>         if (qp->sq.wqe_cnt > (1 << MLX5_CAP_GEN(dev->mdev,
> log_max_qp_sz))) {

And this log_max_qp_sz should be used to derive attr.max_qp_wr

> In this patch I'm trying to include the reg/inv multiplier in the
> calculation, but that doesn't seem to be enough to make "accept"
> reliable, IMO due to this extra calculation in calc_sq_size().

Did ib_create_qp get called with more than max_qp_wr ?

Or is max_qp_wr not working?

Jason




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