Re: [PATCH v5 for-next 3/3] IB/core: Obtain subnet_prefix from cache in IB devices

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 09:15:09PM +0530, Anand Khoje wrote:
> ib_query_port() calls device->ops.query_port() to get the port
> attributes. The method of querying is device driver specific.
> The same function calls device->ops.query_gid() to get the GID and
> extract the subnet_prefix (gid_prefix).
> 
> The GID and subnet_prefix are stored in a cache. But they do not get
> read from the cache if the device is an Infiniband device. The
> following change takes advantage of the cached subnet_prefix.
> Testing with RDBMS has shown a significant improvement in performance
> with this change.
> 
> The function ib_cache_is_initialised() is introduced because
> ib_query_port() gets called early in the stage when the cache is not
> built while reading port immutable property.
> 
> In that case, the default GID still gets read from HCA for IB link-
> layer devices.
> 
> In the situation of an event causing cache update, the subnet_prefix
> will get retrieved from newly updated GID cache in ib_cache_update(),
> so that we do not end up reading a stale value from cache via
> ib_query_port().
> 
> Fixes: fad61ad ("IB/core: Add subnet prefix to port info")
> Suggested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> Suggested-by: Aru Kolappan <aru.kolappan@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anand Khoje <anand.a.khoje@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haakon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
> ---
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>     -   Split the v1 patch in 3 patches as per Leon's suggestion.
> 
> v2 -> v3:
>     -   Added changes as per Mark Zhang's suggestion of clearing
>         flags in git_table_cleanup_one().
> v3 -> v4:
>     -   Removed the enum ib_port_data_flags and 8 byte flags from
>         struct ib_port_data, and the set_bit()/clear_bit() API
>         used to update this flag as that was not necessary.
>         Done to keep the code simple.
>     -   Added code to read subnet_prefix from updated GID cache in the
>         event of cache update. Prior to this change, ib_cache_update
>         was reading the value for subnet_prefix via ib_query_port(),
>         due to this patch, we ended up reading a stale cached value of
>         subnet_prefix.
> v4 -> v5:
>     -   Removed the code to reset cache_is_initialised bit from cleanup
>         as per Leon's suggestion.
>     -   Removed ib_cache_is_initialised() function.
> 
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c  | 14 ++++++++++++--
>  drivers/infiniband/core/device.c |  9 +++++++++
>  include/rdma/ib_verbs.h          |  1 +
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>