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authorRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>2007-05-07 00:02:48 -0400
committerRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>2007-05-07 00:18:11 -0400
commited23a72778f3dbd465e55b06fe31629e7e1dd2f3 (patch)
tree99ab8b4cf7c51ae64b4d3d9108e82b31db2b3465 /drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c
parentf4fd0b224d60044d2da5ca02f8f2b5150c1d8731 (diff)
IB: Return "maybe missed event" hint from ib_req_notify_cq()
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c
index efd79ef109a6..cf0868f6e965 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_cq.c
@@ -726,11 +726,12 @@ repoll:
726 return err == 0 || err == -EAGAIN ? npolled : err; 726 return err == 0 || err == -EAGAIN ? npolled : err;
727} 727}
728 728
729int mthca_tavor_arm_cq(struct ib_cq *cq, enum ib_cq_notify notify) 729int mthca_tavor_arm_cq(struct ib_cq *cq, enum ib_cq_notify_flags flags)
730{ 730{
731 __be32 doorbell[2]; 731 __be32 doorbell[2];
732 732
733 doorbell[0] = cpu_to_be32((notify == IB_CQ_SOLICITED ? 733 doorbell[0] = cpu_to_be32(((flags & IB_CQ_SOLICITED_MASK) ==
734 IB_CQ_SOLICITED ?
734 MTHCA_TAVOR_CQ_DB_REQ_NOT_SOL : 735 MTHCA_TAVOR_CQ_DB_REQ_NOT_SOL :
735 MTHCA_TAVOR_CQ_DB_REQ_NOT) | 736 MTHCA_TAVOR_CQ_DB_REQ_NOT) |
736 to_mcq(cq)->cqn); 737 to_mcq(cq)->cqn);
@@ -743,7 +744,7 @@ int mthca_tavor_arm_cq(struct ib_cq *cq, enum ib_cq_notify notify)
743 return 0; 744 return 0;
744} 745}
745 746
746int mthca_arbel_arm_cq(struct ib_cq *ibcq, enum ib_cq_notify notify) 747int mthca_arbel_arm_cq(struct ib_cq *ibcq, enum ib_cq_notify_flags flags)
747{ 748{
748 struct mthca_cq *cq = to_mcq(ibcq); 749 struct mthca_cq *cq = to_mcq(ibcq);
749 __be32 doorbell[2]; 750 __be32 doorbell[2];
@@ -755,7 +756,8 @@ int mthca_arbel_arm_cq(struct ib_cq *ibcq, enum ib_cq_notify notify)
755 756
756 doorbell[0] = ci; 757 doorbell[0] = ci;
757 doorbell[1] = cpu_to_be32((cq->cqn << 8) | (2 << 5) | (sn << 3) | 758 doorbell[1] = cpu_to_be32((cq->cqn << 8) | (2 << 5) | (sn << 3) |
758 (notify == IB_CQ_SOLICITED ? 1 : 2)); 759 ((flags & IB_CQ_SOLICITED_MASK) ==
760 IB_CQ_SOLICITED ? 1 : 2));
759 761
760 mthca_write_db_rec(doorbell, cq->arm_db); 762 mthca_write_db_rec(doorbell, cq->arm_db);
761 763
@@ -766,7 +768,7 @@ int mthca_arbel_arm_cq(struct ib_cq *ibcq, enum ib_cq_notify notify)
766 wmb(); 768 wmb();
767 769
768 doorbell[0] = cpu_to_be32((sn << 28) | 770 doorbell[0] = cpu_to_be32((sn << 28) |
769 (notify == IB_CQ_SOLICITED ? 771 ((flags & IB_CQ_SOLICITED_MASK) == IB_CQ_SOLICITED ?
770 MTHCA_ARBEL_CQ_DB_REQ_NOT_SOL : 772 MTHCA_ARBEL_CQ_DB_REQ_NOT_SOL :
771 MTHCA_ARBEL_CQ_DB_REQ_NOT) | 773 MTHCA_ARBEL_CQ_DB_REQ_NOT) |
772 cq->cqn); 774 cq->cqn);