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The s_ack_queue is managed by two pointers into the ring:
r_head_ack_queue and s_tail_ack_queue. r_head_ack_queue is the index of
where the next received request is going to be placed and s_tail_ack_queue
is the entry of the request currently being processed. This works
perfectly fine for normal Verbs as the requests are processed one at a
time and the s_tail_ack_queue is not moved until the request that it
points to is fully completed.

In this fashion, s_tail_ack_queue constantly chases r_head_ack_queue and
the two pointers can easily be used to determine "queue full" and "queue
empty" conditions.

The detection of these two conditions are imported in determining when an
old entry can safely be overwritten with a new received request and the
resources associated with the old request be safely released.

When pipelined TID RDMA WRITE is introduced into this mix, things look
very different. r_head_ack_queue is still the point at which a newly
received request will be inserted, s_tail_ack_queue is still the
currently processed request. However, with pipelined TID RDMA WRITE
requests, s_tail_ack_queue moves to the next request once all TID RDMA
WRITE responses for that request have been sent. The rest of the protocol
for a particular request is managed by other pointers specific to TID RDMA
- r_tid_tail and r_tid_ack - which point to the entries for which the next
TID RDMA DATA packets are going to arrive and the request for which
the next TID RDMA ACK packets are to be generated, respectively.

What this means is that entries in the ring, which are "behind"
s_tail_ack_queue (entries which s_tail_ack_queue has gone past) are no
longer considered complete. This is where the problem is - a newly
received request could potentially overwrite a still active TID RDMA WRITE
request.

The reason why the TID RDMA pointers trail s_tail_ack_queue is that the
normal Verbs send engine uses s_tail_ack_queue as the pointer for the next
response. Since TID RDMA WRITE responses are processed by the normal Verbs
send engine, s_tail_ack_queue had to be moved to the next entry once all
TID RDMA WRITE response packets were sent to get the desired pipelining
between requests. Doing otherwise would mean that the normal Verbs send
engine would not be able to send the TID RDMA WRITE responses for the next
TID RDMA request until the current one is fully completed.

This patch introduces the s_acked_ack_queue index to point to the next
request to complete on the responder side. For requests other than TID
RDMA WRITE, s_acked_ack_queue should always be kept in sync with
s_tail_ack_queue. For TID RDMA WRITE request, it may fall behind
s_tail_ack_queue.

Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mitko Haralanov <mitko.haralanov@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaike Wan <kaike.wan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
2019-02-05 18:07:43 -05:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.