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| author | David Dillow <dillowda@ornl.gov> | 2011-01-17 03:09:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> | 2011-03-22 17:39:18 +0100 |
| commit | 7f9e5c48c1078507747434d4c182ab10925bf98a (patch) | |
| tree | 7be46b01df63e36cee9f17ec6bf9b0910be321c2 /drivers/infiniband | |
| parent | IB/mad: Improve an error message so error code is included (diff) | |
| download | linux-7f9e5c48c1078507747434d4c182ab10925bf98a.tar.xz linux-7f9e5c48c1078507747434d4c182ab10925bf98a.zip | |
IB: Increase DMA max_segment_size on Mellanox hardware
By default, each device is assumed to be able only handle 64 KB chunks
during DMA. By giving the segment size a larger value, the block layer
will coalesce more S/G entries together for SRP, allowing larger
requests with the same sg_tablesize setting. The block layer is the
only direct user of it, though a few IOMMU drivers reference it as
well for their *_map_sg coalescing code. pci-gart_64 on x86, and a
smattering on on sparc, powerpc, and ia64.
Since other IB protocols could potentially see larger segments with
this, let's check those:
- iSER is fine, because you limit your maximum request size to 512
KB, so we'll never overrun the page vector in struct iser_page_vec
(128 entries currently). It is independent of the DMA segment size,
and handles multi-page segments already.
- IPoIB is fine, as it maps each page individually, and doesn't use
ib_dma_map_sg().
- RDS appears to do the right thing and has no dependencies on DMA
segment size, but I don't claim to have done a complete audit.
- NFSoRDMA and 9p are OK -- they do not use ib_dma_map_sg(), so they
doesn't care about the coalescing.
- Lustre's ko2iblnd does not care about coalescing -- it properly
walks the returned sg list.
This patch ups the value on Mellanox hardware to 1 GB, which matches
reported firmware limits on mlx4.
Signed-off-by: David Dillow <dillowda@ornl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c index 8a40cd539ab1..f24b79b805f2 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_main.c @@ -1043,6 +1043,9 @@ static int __mthca_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, int hca_type) } } + /* We can handle large RDMA requests, so allow larger segments. */ + dma_set_max_seg_size(&pdev->dev, 1024 * 1024 * 1024); + mdev = (struct mthca_dev *) ib_alloc_device(sizeof *mdev); if (!mdev) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Device struct alloc failed, " |