Re: sg_map failures when tuning SRP via ib_srp module parameters for maximum SG entries

Sagi Grimberg
2016-03-12T22:06:40Z

> Hello
>
> I am seeing and issue with 100Gbit EDR Infiniband (mlx5_ib and ConnectX-4) and connecting to high speed arrays when we tune the ib_srp parameters to maximum allowed values.
>
> The tuning is being done to maximize performance using:
>
> options ib_srp cmd_sg_entries=255 indirect_sg_entries=2048
>
> We get into a situation where in srp_queuecommand we fail the srp_map_data().
>
> [ 353.811594] scsi host4: ib_srp: Failed to map data (-5)
> [ 353.811619] scsi host4: Could not fit S/G list into SRP_CMD

I'd say that's an unusual limit to hit? What is your workload?
with CX4 (fr by default) you'd need a *very* unaligned SG layout
or a huge transfer size (huge).

> On the array
>
> [ 6097.205716] ib_srpt IB send queue full (needed 68)
> [ 6097.233325] ib_srpt srpt_xfer_data[2731] queue full -- ret=-12

Is this upstream srpt? And if all the srp commands contain ~255
(or even ~50) descriptors then I'm not at all surprised you get queue
overrun. Each command includes num_sg_entries worth of rdma posts...