Re: multipath IB/srp fail-over testing lands up in dump stack in swiotlb_alloc_coherent()

Laurence Oberman
2016-06-14T13:57:14Z

> From: "Leon Romanovsky" <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
> To: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche-XdAiOPVOjttBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
> Cc: "Laurence Oberman" <loberman-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>, "Yishai Hadas" <yishaih-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 9:15:52 AM
> Subject: Re: multipath IB/srp fail-over testing lands up in dump stack in swiotlb_alloc_coherent()
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 02:25:15PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On 06/14/2016 02:08 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > >On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:24:28AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > >>On 06/14/2016 03:56 AM, Laurence Oberman wrote:
> > >>>Tracing [ ... ]
> > >>
> > >>Can you try to set the kernel command line parameter swiotlb to a value
> > >>that
> > >>is a multiple of its default (64MB), reboot and see whether that helps?
> > >>See
> > >>also Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt in the kernel tree.
> > >
> > >Do you think that 64MB is not enough for this scenario?
> >
> > Hello Leon,
> >
> > Does this mean that you think that the "swiotlb buffer is full" messages
> > reported by Laurence could be caused by something else than hitting the
> > swiotlb limit?
>
> I don't have enough knowledge in that area to answer if message "swiotlb
> buffer is full" is correctly explain current situation and I will be
> glad to get input from you about it.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> > Bart.
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Hello Bart and Leon

Set to swiotlb=4, I no longer have the swiotlb issue.
Its no longer taking the error path so I confirm that increasing the swiotlb slab count solves this issue.

BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.7.0-rc1.bart.swiotlb+ root=/dev/mapper/rhel-root ro crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=rhel/root rd.lvm.lv=rhel/swap console=ttyS1,115200n8 scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1 swiotlb=4

I am in the process of preparing a Doc patch for IB/srp and IB/srpt where I have captured all the tuning work I have done with Bart.
I will add this to the Doc patch priot to sending it.

Many Thanks
Laurence