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    IB/hfi1: Add an s_acked_ack_queue pointer · 4f9264d1
    Kaike Wan authored
    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: default avatarMike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMitko Haralanov <mitko.haralanov@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKaike Wan <kaike.wan@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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