Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 4/8] IB/core: Skip device which doesn't have necessary capabilities

From: Jason Gunthorpe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 12:13:59 -0300

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 03:06:35PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <[email-masked]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 9:17 PM
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 08:49:56AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > @@ -2293,6 +2295,17 @@ static void ib_sa_event(struct ib_event_handler
> > *handler,
> > >  	}
> > >  }
> > >
> > > +static bool ib_sa_client_supported(struct ib_device *device) {
> > > +	unsigned int i;
> > > +
> > > +	rdma_for_each_port(device, i) {
> > > +		if (rdma_cap_ib_sa(device, i))
> > > +			return true;
> > > +	}
> > > +	return false;
> > > +}
> > 
> > This is already done though:

> It is but, ib_sa_device() allocates ib_sa_device worth of struct for
> each port without checking the rdma_cap_ib_sa().  This results into
> allocating 40 * 512 = 20480 rounded of to power of 2 to 32K bytes of
> memory for the rdma device with 512 ports.  Other modules are also
> similarly wasting such memory.

If it returns EOPNOTUPP then the remove is never called so if it
allocated memory and left it allocated then it is leaking memory.

If you are saying 32k bytes of temporary allocation matters during
device startup then it needs benchmarks and a use case.

> > The add_one function should return -EOPNOTSUPP if it doesn't want to run
> > on this device and any supported checks should just be at the front - this is
> > how things work right now

> I am ok to fold this check at the beginning of add callback.  When
> 512 to 1K RoCE devices are used, they do not have SA, CM, CMA etc
> caps on and all the client needs to go through refcnt + xa + sem and
> unroll them.  Is_supported() routine helps to cut down all of it. I
> didn't calculate the usec saved with it.

If that is the reason then explain in the cover letter and provide
benchmarks

Jason