From: Joachim Fenkes <FENKES@de.ibm.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>,
OF-EWG <ewg@lists.openfabrics.org>,
OF-General <general@lists.openfabrics.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Marcus Eder <meder@de.ibm.com>,
Stefan Roscher <stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Serialize HCA-related hCalls on POWER5
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:38:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OFD9564F75.44193623-ONC12573AE.002EA542-C12573AE.002F5FBC@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adahciq9q86.fsf@cisco.com>
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> wrote on 10.12.2007 22:47:37:
> It's a big problem. If you cannot implement FMRs in such a way that
> you can handling having map_phys_fmr being called in a context that
> can't sleep, then I think the only option is to remove your FMR
> support.
That's kind of what I feared you would say =)
> It's an optional device feature, so this should be OK
> (although the iSER driver currently seems to depend on a device
> supporting FMRs, which is probably going to be a problem with iWARP
> support in the future anyway).
I don't feel very well with removing code from the driver that iSER seems
to depend on. Are there plans to fix this in iSER?
In reality, PHYP rarely ever returns H_LONG_BUSY, and we haven't had any
problems with iSER in the field yet. I admit that our FMR code is
dangerous, but I prefer "dangerous but working for the customer" over "not
working for the customer at all".
Maybe we can agree on keeping the status quo until no more ULPs depend on
FMR, then remove FMR from ehca? If so, we'd also let the _irqsave
spinlocks around hCalls stay in place.
Regards,
Joachim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-11 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 15:07 [PATCH] IB/ehca: Serialize HCA-related hCalls on POWER5 Joachim Fenkes
2007-12-06 15:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-12-06 18:27 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-07 9:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-12-09 23:22 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-10 17:41 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-12-10 21:47 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-11 8:38 ` Joachim Fenkes [this message]
2007-12-12 12:14 ` [ewg] " Or Gerlitz
2007-12-12 16:02 ` Christoph Raisch
2007-12-12 19:09 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-13 8:30 ` Or Gerlitz
2007-12-13 19:22 ` [ofa-general] " Caitlin Bestler
2007-12-13 20:59 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-12-13 21:08 ` Caitlin Bestler
2007-12-13 21:35 ` Joachim Fenkes
2007-12-13 21:48 ` [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: SerializeHCA-related " Sean Hefty
2007-12-07 16:25 ` [PATCH] IB/ehca: Serialize HCA-related " Joachim Fenkes
[not found] <OF85E31FAA.DADA6039-ONC12573AA.005439C8-C12573AA.005A132E@LocalDomain>
2007-12-10 17:59 ` Joachim Fenkes
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