Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIW: User interface

From: Steve Wise <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:32:53 -0500

On 10/05/2010 09:29 AM, Bernard Metzler wrote:
> Steve Wise<[email-masked]>  wrote on 10/05/2010 04:17:34 PM:
>
>    
>> Steve Wise<[email-masked]>
>> 10/05/2010 04:17 PM
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>> To
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>> Bernard Metzler<[email-masked]>
>>
>> cc
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>> [email-masked], [email-masked]
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>> Subject
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>> Re: [PATCH] SIW: User interface
>>
>> On 10/05/2010 01:54 AM, Bernard Metzler wrote:
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>> <snip>
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>>      
>>> +
>>> +/*
>>> + * siw_post_send()
>>> + *
>>> + * Post a list of S-WR's to a SQ.
>>> + *
>>> + * @ofa_qp:   OFA QP contained in siw QP
>>> + * @wr:      Null terminated list of user WR's
>>> + * @bad_wr:   Points to failing WR in case of synchronous failure.
>>> + */
>>> +int siw_post_send(struct ib_qp *ofa_qp, struct ib_send_wr *wr,
>>> +        struct ib_send_wr **bad_wr)
>>> +{
>>> +   struct siw_wqe   *wqe = NULL;
>>> +   struct siw_qp   *qp = siw_qp_ofa2siw(ofa_qp);
>>> +
>>> +   unsigned long flags;
>>> +   int rv = 0;
>>> +
>>> +   dprint(DBG_WR|DBG_TX, "(QP%d): state=%d\n",
>>> +      QP_ID(qp), qp->attrs.state);
>>> +
>>> +   /*
>>> +    * Acquire QP state lock for reading. The idea is that a
>>> +    * user cannot move the QP out of RTS during TX/RX processing.
>>> +    */
>>> +   down_read(&qp->state_lock);
>>> +
>>>
>>>        
>> I don't think you can use a rw_semaphore here because it potentially can
>>      
>    
>> block.  You cannot block/sleep in the post_send/post_recv (and some
>> other) RDMA provider functions.  See
>> Documentation/infiniband/core_locking.txt.
>>
>>
>>      
> ah, ok.
> with that, a down_read_trylock() would solve the issue...?
> given the limited set of errno values - what would you suggest
> as a meaningful return value? EBUSY, EINVAL, ...?
>
>    

I think it is expected that you should implement this without requiring 
the blocking semaphore.  Returning an error will cause the application 
to bail.

Steve.