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- 07 May, 2007 2 commits
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Roland Dreier authored
The semantics defined by the InfiniBand specification say that completion events are only generated when a completions is added to a completion queue (CQ) after completion notification is requested. In other words, this means that the following race is possible: while (CQ is not empty) ib_poll_cq(CQ); // new completion is added after while loop is exited ib_req_notify_cq(CQ); // no event is generated for the existing completion To close this race, the IB spec recommends doing another poll of the CQ after requesting notification. However, it is not always possible to arrange code this way (for example, we have found that NAPI for IPoIB cannot poll after requesting notification). Also, some hardware (eg Mellanox HCAs) actually will generate an event for completions added before the call to ib_req_notify_cq() -- which is allowed by the spec, since there's no way for any upper-layer consumer to know exactly when a completion was really added -- so the extra poll of the CQ is just a waste. Motivated by this, we add a new flag "IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS" for ib_req_notify_cq() so that it can return a hint about whether the a completion may have been added before the request for notification. The return value of ib_req_notify_cq() is extended so: < 0 means an error occurred while requesting notification == 0 means notification was requested successfully, and if IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS was passed in, then no events were missed and it is safe to wait for another event. > 0 is only returned if IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS was passed in. It means that the consumer must poll the CQ again to make sure it is empty to avoid the race described above. We add a flag to enable this behavior rather than turning it on unconditionally, because checking for missed events may incur significant overhead for some low-level drivers, and consumers that don't care about the results of this test shouldn't be forced to pay for the test. Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
Add a num_comp_vectors member to struct ib_device and extend ib_create_cq() to pass in a comp_vector parameter -- this parallels the userspace libibverbs API. Update all hardware drivers to set num_comp_vectors to 1 and have all ULPs pass 0 for the comp_vector value. Pass the value of num_comp_vectors to userspace rather than hard-coding a value of 1. We want multiple CQ event vector support (via MSI-X or similar for adapters that can generate multiple interrupts), but it's not clear how many vectors we want, or how we want to deal with policy issues such as how to decide which vector to use or how to set up interrupt affinity. This patch is useful for experimenting, since no core changes will be necessary when updating a driver to support multiple vectors, and we know that we want to make at least these changes anyway. Signed-off-by:
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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- 04 Feb, 2007 1 commit
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Hoang-Nam Nguyen authored
This patch removes do_mmap() from ehca: - Call remap_pfn_range() for hardware register block - Use vm_insert_page() to register memory allocated for completion queues and queue pairs - The actual mmap() call/trigger is now controlled by user space, ie. libehca Signed-off-by:
Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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- 09 Jan, 2007 1 commit
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Hoang-Nam Nguyen authored
Here is a patch for ehca to use proper flag, ie. GFP_ATOMIC resp. GFP_KERNEL, when calling get_zeroed_page() to prevent "Bug: scheduling while atomic...". This error does not cause a kernel panic but makes ipoib un-usable afterwards. It is reproducible on 2.6.20-rc4 if one does ifconfig down during a flood ping test. I have not observed this error in earlier releases incl. 2.6.20-rc1. This error occurs when a qp event/irq is received and ehca event handler allocates a control block/page to obtain HCA error data block. Use of GFP_ATOMIC when in interrupt context prevents this issue. Signed-off-by Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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- 09 Nov, 2006 1 commit
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Hoang-Nam Nguyen authored
Assure 4K alignment for firmware control blocks in 64K page mode, because kzalloc()'s result address might not be 4K aligned if 64K pages are enabled. Thus, we introduce wrappers called ehca_{alloc,free}_fw_ctrlblock(), which use a slab cache for objects with 4K length and 4K alignment in order to alloc/free firmware control blocks in 64K page mode. In 4K page mode those wrappers just are defines of get_zeroed_page() and free_page(). Signed-off-by:
Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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- 22 Sep, 2006 2 commits
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Ralph Campbell authored
Pass a struct ib_udata to the low-level driver's ->modify_srq() and ->modify_qp() methods, so that it can get to the device-specific data passed in by the userspace driver. Signed-off-by:
Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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Heiko J Schick authored
Add a driver for IBM GX bus InfiniBand adapters, which are usable with some pSeries/System p systems. Signed-off-by: Heiko J Schick <schickhj.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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