[PATCH rdma-next 1/2] IB/core: Add scatter end padding flags for WQ and QP

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

From: Noa Osherovich <noaos-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>

There are root complexes that are able to optimize their
performance when incoming data is multiple full cache lines.

Scatter end padding is the device's ability to pad the ending of
incoming packets (scatter) to full cache line such that the last
upstream write generated by an incoming packet will be a full cache
line.

Add a relevant entry to ib_device_cap_flags to report scatter end
padding capability of an RDMA device.

Add the QP and WQ create flags with an entry for scatter end padding:
 * A QP/WQ created with a scatter end padding flag will cause
   HW to pad the last upstream write generated by a packet to cache line.

User should consider several factors before activating this feature:
- In case of high CPU memory load (which may cause PCI back pressure in
  turn), if a large percent of the writes are partial cache line, this
  feature should be checked as an optional solution.
- This feature might reduce performance if most packets are between one
  and two cache lines and PCIe throughput has reached its maximum
  capacity. E.g. 65B packet from the network port will lead to 128B
  write on PCIe, which may cause traffic on PCIe to reach high
  throughput.

Signed-off-by: Noa Osherovich <noaos-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Reviewed-by: Majd Dibbiny <majd-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c | 3 ++-
 include/rdma/ib_verbs.h              | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
index d31e4bc58e9a..ab29a0327831 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
@@ -1491,7 +1491,8 @@ static int create_qp(struct ib_uverbs_file *file,
 				IB_QP_CREATE_MANAGED_RECV |
 				IB_QP_CREATE_SCATTER_FCS |
 				IB_QP_CREATE_CVLAN_STRIPPING |
-				IB_QP_CREATE_SOURCE_QPN)) {
+				IB_QP_CREATE_SOURCE_QPN |
+				IB_QP_CREATE_SCATTER_END_PADDING)) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto err_put;
 	}
diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
index 9810e4568635..4c0a539cd2a2 100644
--- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
+++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ enum ib_device_cap_flags {
 	/* Deprecated. Please use IB_RAW_PACKET_CAP_SCATTER_FCS. */
 	IB_DEVICE_RAW_SCATTER_FCS		= (1ULL << 34),
 	IB_DEVICE_RDMA_NETDEV_OPA_VNIC		= (1ULL << 35),
+	/* The device supports padding incoming writes to cacheline. */
+	IB_DEVICE_SCATTER_END_PADDING		= (1ULL << 36),
 };
 
 enum ib_signature_prot_cap {
@@ -1098,6 +1100,7 @@ enum ib_qp_create_flags {
 	IB_QP_CREATE_SCATTER_FCS		= 1 << 8,
 	IB_QP_CREATE_CVLAN_STRIPPING		= 1 << 9,
 	IB_QP_CREATE_SOURCE_QPN			= 1 << 10,
+	IB_QP_CREATE_SCATTER_END_PADDING	= 1 << 11,
 	/* reserve bits 26-31 for low level drivers' internal use */
 	IB_QP_CREATE_RESERVED_START		= 1 << 26,
 	IB_QP_CREATE_RESERVED_END		= 1 << 31,
@@ -1621,6 +1624,7 @@ enum ib_wq_flags {
 	IB_WQ_FLAGS_CVLAN_STRIPPING	= 1 << 0,
 	IB_WQ_FLAGS_SCATTER_FCS		= 1 << 1,
 	IB_WQ_FLAGS_DELAY_DROP		= 1 << 2,
+	IB_WQ_FLAGS_SCATTER_END_PADDING = 1 << 3,
 };
 
 struct ib_wq_init_attr {
-- 
2.14.2

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