[ewg] nfsrdma fails to write big file,

Tom Tucker tom at opengridcomputing.com
Wed Feb 24 14:13:44 PST 2010


Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > +               /* 
>  > +                * Add room for frmr register and invalidate WRs
>  > +                * Requests sometimes have two chunks, each chunk
>  > +                * requires to have different frmr. The safest
>  > +                * WRs required are max_send_wr * 6; however, we
>  > +                * get send completions and poll fast enough, it
>  > +                * is pretty safe to have max_send_wr * 4. 
>  > +                */
>  > +               ep->rep_attr.cap.max_send_wr *= 4;
>
> Seems like a bad design if there is a possibility of work queue
> overflow; if you're counting on events occurring in a particular order
> or completions being handled "fast enough", then your design is going to
> fail in some high load situations, which I don't think you want.
>
>   

I agree. It's basically a time bomb. A bump in the work flow and you'll 
overflow the CQ.

Thanks for finding the bug though Vu.
>  - R.
>   




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