Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] net/smc: Introduce receive queue flow control support

From: "dust.li" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:51:30 +0800

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.