IB/iser: Use internal polling budget to avoid possible live-lock

We need a way to guarentee that we don't stay in soft-IRQ context for
too long.  We might starve other pending CQ tasklets or worse lock
against application trying to issue IO on the running CPU.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Nahum <arieln@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c
index 94d1b46b467a..e31ac57accc9 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/iser_verbs.c
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
 #define ISER_MAX_RX_CQ_LEN      (ISER_QP_MAX_RECV_DTOS * ISCSI_ISER_MAX_CONN)
 #define ISER_MAX_TX_CQ_LEN      (ISER_QP_MAX_REQ_DTOS  * ISCSI_ISER_MAX_CONN)
 
+static int iser_cq_poll_limit = 512;
+
 static void iser_cq_tasklet_fn(unsigned long data);
 static void iser_cq_callback(struct ib_cq *cq, void *cq_context);
 static int iser_drain_tx_cq(struct iser_comp *comp);
@@ -1248,6 +1250,8 @@ static void iser_cq_tasklet_fn(unsigned long data)
                 completed_rx++;
                 if (!(completed_rx & 63))
                         completed_tx += iser_drain_tx_cq(comp);
+                if (completed_rx >= iser_cq_poll_limit)
+                        break;
         }
         /* #warning "it is assumed here that arming CQ only once its empty" *
          * " would not cause interrupts to be missed"                       */