[ofa-general] [PATCH] IPoIB: refresh paths that might be invalid

Moni Shoua monis at Voltaire.COM
Tue Jan 13 07:51:56 PST 2009


If a standby SM takes over and if only some of the nodes change their LID as a
result, the other nodes get an IPOIB_FLUSH_LIGHT event on the that doesn't
cause flushing of paths but only marks them as probably invalid. Path refresh
will happen only after an ARP probe which may take some time (tens of seconds).
This patch adds a task that is responsible to restart the lookup of possibly
invalid paths in 2 occasions: handling IPOIB_FLUSH_LIGHT event and when path
completion returned with bad status.

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h      |    6 +++-
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c   |    2 -
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h
index 753a983..89f574c 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ struct ipoib_dev_priv {
 	struct work_struct flush_heavy;
 	struct work_struct restart_task;
 	struct delayed_work ah_reap_task;
+	struct delayed_work path_refresh_task;
 
 	struct ib_device *ca;
 	u8		  port;
@@ -378,7 +379,7 @@ struct ipoib_path {
 
 	struct rb_node	      rb_node;
 	struct list_head      list;
-	int  		      valid;
+	u8  		      stale;
 };
 
 struct ipoib_neigh {
@@ -442,8 +443,9 @@ int ipoib_add_umcast_attr(struct net_device *dev);
 void ipoib_send(struct net_device *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		struct ipoib_ah *address, u32 qpn);
 void ipoib_reap_ah(struct work_struct *work);
+void ipoib_refresh_paths(struct work_struct *work);
 
-void ipoib_mark_paths_invalid(struct net_device *dev);
+void ipoib_mark_paths_stale(struct net_device *dev);
 void ipoib_flush_paths(struct net_device *dev);
 struct ipoib_dev_priv *ipoib_intf_alloc(const char *format);
 
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c
index a192581..1a50076 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ static void __ipoib_ib_dev_flush(struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv,
 	}
 
 	if (level == IPOIB_FLUSH_LIGHT) {
-		ipoib_mark_paths_invalid(dev);
+		ipoib_mark_paths_stale(dev);
 		ipoib_mcast_dev_flush(dev);
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
index dce0443..c4e227a 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ void ipoib_path_iter_read(struct ipoib_path_iter *iter,
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG */
 
-void ipoib_mark_paths_invalid(struct net_device *dev)
+void ipoib_mark_paths_stale(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
 	struct ipoib_path *path, *tp;
@@ -360,11 +360,15 @@ void ipoib_mark_paths_invalid(struct net_device *dev)
 	spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock);
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(path, tp, &priv->path_list, list) {
-		ipoib_dbg(priv, "mark path LID 0x%04x GID %pI6 invalid\n",
+		ipoib_dbg(priv, "mark path LID 0x%04x GID %pI6 stale\n",
 			be16_to_cpu(path->pathrec.dlid),
 			path->pathrec.dgid.raw);
-		path->valid =  0;
+		path->stale =  0;
 	}
+	if (!list_empty(&priv->path_list))
+		queue_delayed_work(ipoib_workqueue, &priv->path_refresh_task,
+					round_jiffies_relative(HZ));
+
 
 	spin_unlock_irq(&priv->lock);
 }
@@ -427,6 +431,10 @@ static void path_rec_completion(int status,
 
 		if (!ib_init_ah_from_path(priv->ca, priv->port, pathrec, &av))
 			ah = ipoib_create_ah(dev, priv->pd, &av);
+	} else {
+		path->stale = 1;
+		queue_delayed_work(ipoib_workqueue, &priv->path_refresh_task,
+					round_jiffies_relative(HZ));
 	}
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
@@ -477,7 +485,6 @@ static void path_rec_completion(int status,
 			while ((skb = __skb_dequeue(&neigh->queue)))
 				__skb_queue_tail(&skqueue, skb);
 		}
-		path->valid = 1;
 	}
 
 	path->query = NULL;
@@ -551,9 +558,29 @@ static int path_rec_start(struct net_device *dev,
 		return path->query_id;
 	}
 
+	path->stale =  0;
 	return 0;
 }
 
+void ipoib_refresh_paths(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv =
+		container_of(work, struct ipoib_dev_priv, path_refresh_task.work);
+	struct net_device *dev = priv->dev;
+	struct ipoib_path *path, *tp;
+
+	spin_lock_irq(&priv->lock);
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(path, tp, &priv->path_list, list) {
+		ipoib_dbg(priv, "restart path LID 0x%04x GID %pI6\n",
+			be16_to_cpu(path->pathrec.dlid),
+			path->pathrec.dgid.raw);
+		if (path->stale)
+			path_rec_start(dev, path);
+	}
+
+	spin_unlock_irq(&priv->lock);
+}
+
 static void neigh_add_path(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -656,7 +683,7 @@ static void unicast_arp_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
 
 	path = __path_find(dev, phdr->hwaddr + 4);
-	if (!path || !path->valid) {
+	if (!path) {
 		if (!path)
 			path = path_rec_create(dev, phdr->hwaddr + 4);
 		if (path) {
@@ -1070,6 +1097,7 @@ static void ipoib_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	INIT_WORK(&priv->flush_heavy,   ipoib_ib_dev_flush_heavy);
 	INIT_WORK(&priv->restart_task, ipoib_mcast_restart_task);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&priv->ah_reap_task, ipoib_reap_ah);
+	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&priv->path_refresh_task, ipoib_refresh_paths);
 }
 
 struct ipoib_dev_priv *ipoib_intf_alloc(const char *name)



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