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From: "dust.li" <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Guangguan Wang <guangguan.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	kgraul@linux.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net/smc: Introduce receive queue flow control support
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:51:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220120095130.GB41938@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220120065140.5385-1-guangguan.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 02:51:40PM +0800, Guangguan Wang wrote:
>This implement rq flow control in smc-r link layer. QPs
>communicating without rq flow control, in the previous
>version, may result in RNR (reveive not ready) error, which
>means when sq sends a message to the remote qp, but the
>remote qp's rq has no valid rq entities to receive the message.
>In RNR condition, the rdma transport layer may retransmit
>the messages again and again until the rq has any entities,
>which may lower the performance, especially in heavy traffic.
>Using credits to do rq flow control can avoid the occurrence
>of RNR.

I'm wondering if SRQ can be used to solve this problem ?

One of my concern on credit-base flow control is if the RTT is
a bit longer, we may have to wait RTT/2 for peer to grant us credit
before we can really send more data. That may decrease the maximium
bandwidth we can achive in this case.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-20  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-20  6:51 [RFC PATCH net-next] net/smc: Introduce receive queue flow control support Guangguan Wang
2022-01-20  8:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2022-01-20  9:20   ` Guangguan Wang
2022-01-20  9:51 ` dust.li [this message]
2022-01-21 16:21   ` Guangguan Wang
2022-01-20 11:03 ` Karsten Graul
2022-01-21 16:36   ` Guangguan Wang
2022-01-20 14:22 ` Tony Lu
2022-01-21 16:48   ` Guangguan Wang
2022-01-25  9:42 ` Stefan Raspl
2022-01-29  3:43   ` Guangguan Wang
2022-01-29  4:24     ` Tony Lu
2022-01-31 12:56     ` Karsten Graul

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