From: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@kernel.org>,
Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>,
Eli Cohen <eli@dev.mellanox.co.il>,
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>,
Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@mellanox.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mlx4: Use GFP_NOFS calls during the ipoib TX path when creating the QP
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 23:52:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJZOPZKYA8Pz1x1cKn46A7+EO+th4DETvmYiX_HR7aYbsfxRRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZOPZK4Ah+nKPWnX3=yM43jbf586GYJ+fh0-OL4bOnqKK8v8A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
>>
>> This was originally a patch from Matthew Finlay <matt@mellanox.com> that
>> addressed a problem whereby NFS writes would enter uninterruptible sleep
>> forever. The issue happened when using NFS over IPoIB. This is not a
>> recommended configuration as RDMA is preferred but it is still a valid
>> configuration and is important to have in situations where the NFS server
>> does not support RDMA. The problem encountered was described as follows:
>> .
And what happens if you use IPoIB datagram mode, is/why the patch is
needed there?
Also the patch uses a new QP creatiob flag IB_QP_CREATE_USE_GFP_NOFS
but it doesn't
touch include/rdma/ib_verbs.h nor I see this flag defined anywhere on
the patch, does it compile? how?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-25 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-21 21:53 [PATCH] mlx4: Use GFP_NOFS calls during the ipoib TX path when creating the QP Jiri Kosina
[not found] ` <CAJZOPZK4Ah+nKPWnX3=yM43jbf586GYJ+fh0-OL4bOnqKK8v8A@mail.gmail.com>
2014-02-25 21:52 ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2014-02-25 22:11 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-02-25 22:20 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-02-25 22:40 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-02-25 22:48 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-02-25 22:55 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-03-05 19:46 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-03-06 13:31 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-03-06 13:47 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-02-26 21:18 Or Gerlitz
2014-02-27 9:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-02-27 9:58 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-02-27 10:42 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-03-04 22:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-03-05 15:57 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-03-05 19:25 ` Roland Dreier
2014-03-11 13:53 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-03-14 19:50 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-04-24 17:03 ` Jiri Kosina
2014-04-24 20:01 ` Or Gerlitz
2014-05-02 13:03 ` Jiri Kosina
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