Re: [PATCH] IB/mad: Use ID allocator routines to allocate agent number

["Håkon Bugge" <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>]

> On 29 May 2018, at 18:40, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 06:16:14PM +0200, Håkon Bugge wrote:
>> 
>>> On 29 May 2018, at 17:49, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 09:38:08AM +0200, Hans Westgaard Ry wrote:
>>>> The agent TID is a 64 bit value split in two dwords.  The least
>>>> significant dword is the TID running counter. The most significant
>>>> dword is the agent number. In the CX-3 shared port model, the mlx4
>>>> driver uses the most significant byte of the agent number to store the
>>>> slave number, making agent numbers greater and equal to 2^24 (3 bytes)
>>>> unusable.
>>> 
>>> There is no reason for this to be an ida, just do something like
>>> 
>>> mad_agent_priv->agent.hi_tid = atomic_inc_return(&ib_mad_client_id) & mad_agent_priv->ib_dev->tid_mask;
>>> 
>>> And have the driver set tid_mask to 3 bytes of 0xFF
>> 
>> The issue is that some of the mad agents are long-lived, so you will
>> wrap and use the same TID twice.
> 
> We already have that problem, and using ida is problematic because we
> need to maximize the time between TID re-use, which ida isn't doing.

Initially, I thought that too, but consulted the spec which states:

C13-18.1.1: When initiating a new operation, MADHeader:TransactionID
shall be set to such a value that within that MAD the combination of TID,
SGID, and MgmtClass is different from that of any other currently executing
operation. []

"currently executing operation" that is.

But if timeouts etc. leads to MAD floating around in the fabric, its of course more robust to maximize the time between reuse.

Then idr_alloc_cyclic() can be used.

> Preventing re-use seems like a seperate issue from limiting the range
> to be compatible with mlx4.

Yes. But a v2 of Hans' patch using idr_alloc_cyclic() solves both issues.


Thxs, Håkon

> 
> Jason
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