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| author | Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> | 2014-05-11 15:15:11 +0300 |
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| committer | Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> | 2014-06-02 14:58:11 -0700 |
| commit | 09b93088d75009807b72293f26e2634430ce5ba9 (patch) | |
| tree | 78337f035d708879589063e779c5fa3a42183c2e /drivers/infiniband | |
| parent | 60093dc0c8b6407bc7494cbcb3e84322cc6782c8 (diff) | |
IB: Add a QP creation flag to use GFP_NOIO allocations
This addresses a problem where NFS client writes over IPoIB connected
mode may deadlock on memory allocation/writeback.
The problem is not directly memory reclamation. There is an indirect
dependency between network filesystems writing back pages and
ipoib_cm_tx_init() due to how a kworker is used. Page reclaim cannot
make forward progress until ipoib_cm_tx_init() succeeds and it is
stuck in page reclaim itself waiting for network transmission.
Ordinarily this situation may be avoided by having the caller use
GFP_NOFS but ipoib_cm_tx_init() does not have that information.
To address this, take a general approach and add a new QP creation
flag that tells the low-level hardware driver to use GFP_NOIO for the
memory allocations related to the new QP.
Use the new flag in the ipoib connected mode path, and if the driver
doesn't support it, re-issue the QP creation without the flag.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c index 1377f85911c..933efcea0d0 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c @@ -1030,10 +1030,20 @@ static struct ib_qp *ipoib_cm_create_tx_qp(struct net_device *dev, struct ipoib_ .cap.max_send_sge = 1, .sq_sig_type = IB_SIGNAL_ALL_WR, .qp_type = IB_QPT_RC, - .qp_context = tx + .qp_context = tx, + .create_flags = IB_QP_CREATE_USE_GFP_NOIO }; - return ib_create_qp(priv->pd, &attr); + struct ib_qp *tx_qp; + + tx_qp = ib_create_qp(priv->pd, &attr); + if (PTR_ERR(tx_qp) == -EINVAL) { + ipoib_warn(priv, "can't use GFP_NOIO for QPs on device %s, using GFP_KERNEL\n", + priv->ca->name); + attr.create_flags &= ~IB_QP_CREATE_USE_GFP_NOIO; + tx_qp = ib_create_qp(priv->pd, &attr); + } + return tx_qp; } static int ipoib_cm_send_req(struct net_device *dev, @@ -1104,12 +1114,14 @@ static int ipoib_cm_tx_init(struct ipoib_cm_tx *p, u32 qpn, struct ipoib_dev_priv *priv = netdev_priv(p->dev); int ret; - p->tx_ring = vzalloc(ipoib_sendq_size * sizeof *p->tx_ring); + p->tx_ring = __vmalloc(ipoib_sendq_size * sizeof *p->tx_ring, + GFP_NOIO, PAGE_KERNEL); if (!p->tx_ring) { ipoib_warn(priv, "failed to allocate tx ring\n"); ret = -ENOMEM; goto err_tx; } + memset(p->tx_ring, 0, ipoib_sendq_size * sizeof *p->tx_ring); p->qp = ipoib_cm_create_tx_qp(p->dev, p); if (IS_ERR(p->qp)) { |