Re: [PATCH rdma-next v3] RDMA/mlx4: Provide port number for special QPs

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 02:18:57PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> 
> Special QPs created by mlx4 have same QP port borrowed from
> the context, while they are expected to have different ones.
> 
> Fix it by using HW physical port instead.
> 
> It fixes the following error during driver init:
> [   12.074150] mlx4_core 0000:05:00.0: mlx4_ib: initializing demux service for 128 qp1 clients
> [   12.084036] <mlx4_ib> create_pv_sqp: Couldn't create special QP (-16)
> [   12.085123] <mlx4_ib> create_pv_resources: Couldn't create  QP1 (-16)
> [   12.088300] mlx4_en: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v4.0-0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  Changelog:
> v3: mlx4 devices create 2 special QPs in SRIOV mode, separate them by
> port number and special bit. The mlx4 is limited to two ports and not
> going to be extended, and the port_num is not forwarded to FW too, so
> it is safe.
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/20200907122156.478360-4-leon@kernel.org/#r
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

I didn't understand why this was in the restrack series, and the
commit doesn't say when the error can be hit

No fixes line?

Jason