From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
To: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: vladimirk@mellanox.com, idanb@mellanox.com, israelr@mellanox.com,
linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, shlomin@mellanox.com,
oren@mellanox.com, kbusch@kernel.org, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-cli/fabrics: Add pi_enable param to connect cmd
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:47:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98aa5f26-909d-1e93-55a2-cd2ba9929ff7@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3670fb4-7782-d4af-a9a5-c30b6d1db6f0@mellanox.com>
>> When an I/O request is received by the SCSI stack, we inspect it to
>> determine whether we need to allocate one or two scatterlists. If the
>> request has a bip attached, we'll allocate a separate scatterlist which
>> is then used to map the protection information before the I/O is
>> submitted to the device driver.
>
> For an NVMe/RDMA controller we must allocate a pool of PI MRs in the
> constructor function in order to support E2E PI (and it's expensive).
>
> We can't do it in queue_rq function. In queue_rq we get the needed MR
> according to the namespace format from a pre-allocated pool (PI_MR for
> PI_namespace and REGULAR_MR for REGULAR_namespace).
>
> We can go with the module parameter approach but it will be very limited
> for users and wasteful.
Yep, this is a fundamental difference for the RDMA devices that supports
integrity.. You effectively need substantially more resources to track
all the inflight contexts.
We could in theory lazily allocate the special resources, but the
queue-pair extra sizing is not something that you can change in runtime...
I'm fine with explicitly enabling PI for controllers that we know that
support PI.
_______________________________________________
Linux-nvme mailing list
Linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvme
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-05 16:20 [PATCH 00/15] nvme-rdma/nvmet-rdma: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH] nvme-cli/fabrics: Add pi_enable param to connect cmd Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-07 2:36 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-11-07 12:02 ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-09 1:55 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-11-10 9:25 ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-12 17:47 ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2019-11-12 18:14 ` James Smart
2019-11-12 18:23 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 01/15] nvme-fabrics: allow user enabling metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-12 17:48 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 02/15] nvme: Fail __nvme_revalidate_disk in case of a spec violation Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 17:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-12 17:52 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 03/15] nvme: Introduce max_integrity_segments ctrl attribute Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 17:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-12 17:53 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 04/15] nvme: Inline nvme_ns_has_pi function Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 17:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 05/15] nvme-rdma: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 17:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-20 10:41 ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-12 18:22 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-13 14:35 ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-14 23:57 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 06/15] block: Introduce BIP_NOMAP_INTEGRITY bip_flag Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-07 2:43 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-11-07 13:29 ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-09 2:10 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-11-12 10:40 ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 07/15] nvmet: Prepare metadata request Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 08/15] nvmet: Add metadata characteristics for a namespace Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 17:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-12 18:38 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 09/15] nvmet: Rename nvmet_rw_len to nvmet_rw_data_len Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 17:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-12 18:39 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 10/15] nvmet: Rename nvmet_check_data_len to nvmet_check_transfer_len Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 18:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-12 18:43 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 11/15] nvmet: Introduce nvmet_rw_prot_len and nvmet_ns_has_pi Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 18:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 12/15] nvme: Add Metadata Capabilities enumerations Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 13/15] nvmet: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 14/15] nvmet: Add metadata support for block devices Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 16:20 ` [PATCH 15/15] nvmet-rdma: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-05 18:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-07 13:43 ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-12 18:34 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-11-13 13:56 ` Max Gurtovoy
2019-11-14 23:45 ` Sagi Grimberg
2019-12-02 14:47 [PATCH 00/16 V2] nvme-rdma/nvmet-rdma: " Max Gurtovoy
2019-12-02 14:47 ` [PATCH] nvme-cli/fabrics: Add pi_enable param to connect cmd Max Gurtovoy
2020-01-06 13:37 [PATCH 00/15 V3] nvme-rdma/nvmet-rdma: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2020-01-06 13:37 ` [PATCH] nvme-cli/fabrics: Add pi_enable param to connect cmd Max Gurtovoy
2020-02-24 16:45 [PATCH 00/19 V4] nvme-rdma/nvmet-rdma: Add metadata/T10-PI support Max Gurtovoy
2020-02-24 16:45 ` [PATCH] nvme-cli/fabrics: Add pi_enable param to connect cmd Max Gurtovoy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=98aa5f26-909d-1e93-55a2-cd2ba9929ff7@grimberg.me \
--to=sagi@grimberg.me \
--cc=hch@lst.de \
--cc=idanb@mellanox.com \
--cc=israelr@mellanox.com \
--cc=kbusch@kernel.org \
--cc=linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org \
--cc=martin.petersen@oracle.com \
--cc=maxg@mellanox.com \
--cc=oren@mellanox.com \
--cc=shlomin@mellanox.com \
--cc=vladimirk@mellanox.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).