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Chuck Lever authored
rdma_rw_mr_factor() returns the smallest number of MRs needed to move a particular number of pages. svcrdma currently asks for the number of MRs needed to move RPCSVC_MAXPAGES (a little over one megabyte), as that is the number of pages in the largest r/wsize the server supports. This call assumes that the client's NIC can bundle a full one megabyte payload in a single rdma_segment. In fact, most NICs cannot handle a full megabyte with a single rkey / rdma_segment. Clients will typically split even a single Read chunk into many segments. The server needs one MR to read each rdma_segment in a Read chunk, and thus each one needs an rw_ctx. svcrdma has been vastly underestimating the number of rw_ctxs needed to handle 64 RPC requests with large Read chunks using small rdma_segments. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a good way to estimate this number without knowing the client NIC's capabilities. Even then, the client RPC/RDMA implementation is still free to split a chunk into smaller segments (for example, it might be using physical registration, which needs an rdma_segment per page). The best we can do for now is choose a number that will guarantee forward progress in the worst case (one page per segment). At some later point, we could add some mechanisms to make this much less of a problem: - Add a core API to add more rw_ctxs to an already-established QP - svcrdma could treat rw_ctx exhaustion as a temporary error and try again - Limit the number of Reads in flight Signed-off-by:
Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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