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In the current implementation, the driver tries to allocate contiguous
memory, and if it fails, it falls back to 4K fragmented allocation.
Once the memory is fragmented, the first allocation might take a lot
of time, and even fail, which can cause connection failures.
This patch changes the logic to always allocate with 4K granularity,
since it's more robust and more likely to succeed.
This patch was tested with Lustre and no performance degradation
was observed.
Note: This commit eliminates the "shrinking WQE" feature. This feature
depended on using vmap to create a virtually contiguous send WQ.
vmap use was abandoned due to problems with several processors (see the
commit cited below). As a result, shrinking WQE was available only with
physically contiguous send WQs. Allocating such send WQs caused the
problems described above.
Therefore, as a side effect of eliminating the use of large physically
contiguous send WQs, the shrinking WQE feature became unavailable.
Warning example:
worker/20:1: page allocation failure: order:8, mode:0x80d0
CPU: 20 PID: 513 Comm: kworker/20:1 Tainted: G OE ------------
Workqueue: ib_cm cm_work_handler [ib_cm]
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81686d81>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[<ffffffff81186160>] warn_alloc_failed+0x110/0x180
[<ffffffff8118a954>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x9b4/0xba0
[<ffffffff811ce868>] alloc_pages_current+0x98/0x110
[<ffffffff81184fae>] __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
[<ffffffff8133f6fe>] swiotlb_alloc_coherent+0x5e/0x150
[<ffffffff81062551>] x86_swiotlb_alloc_coherent+0x41/0x50
[<ffffffffa056b4c4>] mlx4_buf_direct_alloc.isra.7+0xc4/0x180 [mlx4_core]
[<ffffffffa056b73b>] mlx4_buf_alloc+0x1bb/0x260 [mlx4_core]
[<ffffffffa0b15496>] create_qp_common+0x536/0x1000 [mlx4_ib]
[<ffffffff811c6ef7>] ? dma_pool_free+0xa7/0xd0
[<ffffffffa0b163c1>] mlx4_ib_create_qp+0x3b1/0xdc0 [mlx4_ib]
[<ffffffffa0b01bc2>] ? mlx4_ib_create_cq+0x2d2/0x430 [mlx4_ib]
[<ffffffffa0b21f20>] mlx4_ib_create_qp_wrp+0x10/0x20 [mlx4_ib]
[<ffffffffa08f152a>] ib_create_qp+0x7a/0x2f0 [ib_core]
[<ffffffffa06205d4>] rdma_create_qp+0x34/0xb0 [rdma_cm]
[<ffffffffa08275c9>] kiblnd_create_conn+0xbf9/0x1950 [ko2iblnd]
[<ffffffffa074077a>] ? cfs_percpt_unlock+0x1a/0xb0 [libcfs]
[<ffffffffa0835519>] kiblnd_passive_connect+0xa99/0x18c0 [ko2iblnd]
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| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| firmware | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.