linux/drivers/infiniband/hw
Michael Guralnik 11f552e217 IB/mlx5: Test write combining support
Linux can run in all sorts of physical machines and VMs where write
combining may or may not be supported. Currently there is no way to
reliably tell if the system supports WC, or not. The driver uses WC to
optimize posting work to the HCA, and getting this wrong in either
direction can cause a significant performance loss.

Add a test in mlx5_ib initialization process to test whether
write-combining is supported on the machine.  The test will run as part of
the enable_driver callback to ensure that the test runs after the device
is setup and can create and modify the QP needed, but runs before the
device is exposed to the users.

The test opens UD QP and posts NOP WQEs, the WQE written to the BlueFlame
is different from the WQE in memory, requesting CQE only on the BlueFlame
WQE. By checking whether we received a completion on one of these WQEs we
can know if BlueFlame succeeded and this write-combining must be
supported.

Change reporting of BlueFlame support to be dependent on write-combining
support instead of the FW's guess as to what the machine can do.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191027062234.10993-1-leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
2019-10-31 15:52:51 -03:00
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bnxt_re RDMA/bnxt_re: Enable SRIOV VF support on Broadcom's 57500 adapter series 2019-10-08 16:22:24 -03:00
cxgb4 Linux 5.4-rc5 2019-10-28 16:36:29 -03:00
efa RDMA/efa: Fix incorrect error print 2019-09-16 14:25:43 -03:00
hfi1 RDMA/hfi1: Prevent memory leak in sdma_init 2019-10-01 11:34:55 -03:00
hns RDMA/hns: Fix build error again 2019-10-29 16:16:54 -03:00
i40iw RDMA/i40iw: Associate ibdev to netdev before IB device registration 2019-10-04 14:29:14 -03:00
mlx4 Merge tag 'v5.3-rc8' into rdma.git for-next 2019-09-13 16:59:51 -03:00
mlx5 IB/mlx5: Test write combining support 2019-10-31 15:52:51 -03:00
mthca IB: Remove unneeded memset 2019-07-03 14:26:49 -03:00
ocrdma RDMA: Introduce ib_port_phys_state enum 2019-08-12 10:18:52 -04:00
qedr RDMA/qedr: Fix memory leak in user qp and mr 2019-10-28 14:01:36 -03:00
qib mm/gup: add make_dirty arg to put_user_pages_dirty_lock() 2019-09-24 15:54:08 -07:00
usnic mm/gup: add make_dirty arg to put_user_pages_dirty_lock() 2019-09-24 15:54:08 -07:00
vmw_pvrdma Linux 5.4-rc5 2019-10-28 16:36:29 -03:00
Makefile RDMA/iw_cxgb3: Remove the iw_cxgb3 module from kernel 2019-10-04 15:08:59 -03:00