Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/mlx5: increase async EQ to avoid EQ overrun

[Doug Ledford <dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

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On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 16:29 +0200, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> Currently the async EQ has 256 entries only. It might not be big enough
> for the SW to handle all the needed pending events. For example, in case
> of many QPs (let's say 1024) connected to a SRQ created using NVMeOF target
> and the target goes down, the FW will raise 1024 "last WQE reached" events
> and may cause EQ overrun. Increase the EQ to more reasonable size, that beyond
> it the FW should be able to delay the event and raise it later on using internal
> backpressure mechanism.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>

Thanks, applied.  But if this gets me in trouble with DaveM for sending
a patch to drivers/net, I'm gonna tell him it's because you sent it here
and excluded netdev@ and that it was part of a series related to an RDMA
issue that I took it, all while giving you the evil eye ;-)

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