Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 5 authors, 2025-09-28

Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net/smc: make wr buffer count configurable

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Date: 2025-09-25 09:27:43
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On 9/21/25 11:44 PM, Halil Pasic wrote:
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
index a874d007f2db..c94d750c7c84 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
@@ -71,3 +71,39 @@ smcr_max_conns_per_lgr - INTEGER
 	acceptable value ranges from 16 to 255. Only for SMC-R v2.1 and later.
 
 	Default: 255
+
+smcr_max_send_wr - INTEGER
+	So called work request buffers are SMCR link (and RDMA queue pair) level
+	resources necessary for performing RDMA operations. Since up to 255
+	connections can share a link group and thus also a link and the number
+	of the work request buffers is decided when the link is allocated,
+	depending on the workload it can a bottleneck in a sense that threads
missing 'be' or 'become'           here^^
+	have to wait for work request buffers to become available. Before the
+	introduction of this control the maximal number of work request buffers
+	available on the send path used to be hard coded to 16. With this control
+	it becomes configurable. The acceptable range is between 2 and 2048.
+
+	Please be aware that all the buffers need to be allocated as a physically
+	continuous array in which each element is a single buffer and has the size
+	of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails we give up much
+	like before having this control.
+
+	Default: 16
+
+smcr_max_recv_wr - INTEGER
+	So called work request buffers are SMCR link (and RDMA queue pair) level
+	resources necessary for performing RDMA operations. Since up to 255
+	connections can share a link group and thus also a link and the number
+	of the work request buffers is decided when the link is allocated,
+	depending on the workload it can a bottleneck in a sense that threads
same                               here^^

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@@ -683,6 +678,8 @@ int smc_ib_create_queue_pair(struct smc_link *lnk)
 	};
 	int rc;
 
+	qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr = 3 * lnk->lgr->max_send_wr;
+	qp_attr.cap.max_recv_wr = lnk->lgr->max_recv_wr;
Possibly:

	cap = max(3 * lnk->lgr->max_send_wr, lnk->lgr->max_recv_wr);
	qp_attr.cap.max_send_wr = cap;
	qp_attr.cap.max_recv_wr = cap

to avoid assumption on `max_send_wr`, `max_recv_wr` relative values.

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diff --git a/net/smc/smc_sysctl.h b/net/smc/smc_sysctl.h
index eb2465ae1e15..8538915af7af 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_sysctl.h
+++ b/net/smc/smc_sysctl.h
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ static inline int smc_sysctl_net_init(struct net *net)
 	net->smc.sysctl_autocorking_size = SMC_AUTOCORKING_DEFAULT_SIZE;
 	net->smc.sysctl_max_links_per_lgr = SMC_LINKS_PER_LGR_MAX_PREFER;
 	net->smc.sysctl_max_conns_per_lgr = SMC_CONN_PER_LGR_PREFER;
+	net->smc.sysctl_smcr_max_send_wr = SMCR_MAX_SEND_WR_DEF;
+	net->smc.sysctl_smcr_max_recv_wr = SMCR_MAX_RECV_WR_DEF;
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/net/smc/smc_wr.c b/net/smc/smc_wr.c
index b04a21b8c511..f5b2772414fd 100644
--- a/net/smc/smc_wr.c
+++ b/net/smc/smc_wr.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #define SMC_WR_MAX_POLL_CQE 10	/* max. # of compl. queue elements in 1 poll */
 
 #define SMC_WR_RX_HASH_BITS 4
+
Please avoid unrelated whitespace only changes.

Thanks,

Paolo
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