1. 27 Sep, 2018 2 commits
    • Parav Pandit's avatar
      RDMA/core: Acquire and release mmap_sem on page range · 3994586f
      Parav Pandit authored
      Currently mmap_sem is read locked while pinning the memory.  In a
      multi-threaded application of a process, holding mmap_sem lock creates
      contention with other threads who might be either registering memory,
      creating QPs or simply doing mmap() as such operations also require to
      hold the mmap_sem write lock.
      
      All such operation cannot make forward progress until one memory pin
      operation is completed.  It becomes more worse if the memory is unpinned
      and/or memory registration is large (in GB range).
      
      Therefore, instead of holding mmap_sem for too long (for whole region
      pinning), acquire and release the lock for every few pages.  For example
      on x86 with 4K page size, acquire and release mmap_sem for every 2Mbytes
      memory chunk.
      
      This allows other competing threads to make progress who might wish to
      hold mmap_sem for shorter duration.
      
      When memory registration latency is measured using [1] for memory sizes
      ranging from 4K to 48GB, <= 1% or 0.5% degradation is noticed. In many
      runs no difference is seen other than run-to-run variance.
      
      In other targeted tests of users with large memory, desired improvements
      are seen due to reduced contention of mmap_sem.
      
      [1] https://github.com/paravmellanox/rtool
      
      $ rdma_resource_lat -c 1 -s 48G -a -u L -i 500 -A
      
      It registers pinned memory from 4K to 48GB size with 500 iterations for
      each memory size.
      
      $ rdma_resource_lat -c 1 -s 12G -a -u L -i 500 -t 4
      
      4 competing threads pin memory, each of 12GB size with 500 iterations.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarParav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
      3994586f
    • Colin Ian King's avatar
      RDMA/hns: fix spelling mistake "reseved" -> "reserved" · b54900fc
      Colin Ian King authored
      Trivial fix to spelling mistake in dev_err error message
      Signed-off-by: default avatarColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
      b54900fc
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