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    SVCRDMA: Use only 1 RDMA read scatter entry for iWARP adapters · d3073779
    Roland Dreier authored
    The iWARP protocol limits RDMA read requests to a single scatter
    entry.  NFS/RDMA has code in rdma_read_max_sge() that is supposed to
    limit the sge_count for RDMA read requests to 1, but the code to do
    that is inside an #ifdef RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP block.  In the mainline
    kernel at least, RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP is an enum and not a
    preprocessor #define, so the #ifdef'ed code is never compiled.
    
    In my test of a kernel build with -j8 on an NFS/RDMA mount, this
    problem eventually leads to trouble starting with:
    
        svcrdma: Error posting send = -22
        svcrdma : RDMA_READ error = -22
    
    and things go downhill from there.
    
    The trivial fix is to delete the #ifdef guard.  The check seems to be
    a remnant of when the NFS/RDMA code was not merged and needed to
    compile against multiple kernel versions, although I don't think it
    ever worked as intended.  In any case now that the code is upstream
    there's no need to test whether the RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP constant is
    defined or not.
    
    Without this patch, my kernel build on an NFS/RDMA mount using NetEffect
    adapters quickly and 100% reproducibly failed with an error like:
    
        ld: final link failed: Software caused connection abort
    
    With the patch applied I was able to complete a kernel build on the
    same setup.
    
    (Tom Tucker says this is "actually an _ancient_ remnant when it had to
    compile against iWARP vs. non-iWARP enabled OFA trees.")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarTom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    d3073779
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