Re: [PATCH] IB/core: Obtain subnet_prefix from cache in IB devices

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Sun May 09 2021 - 07:08:19 EST


On Fri, May 07, 2021 at 07:36:38PM +0530, Anand Khoje wrote:
> ib_query_port() calls device->ops.query_port() to get the port
> attributes. The method of querying is device driver specific.
> The same function calls device->ops.query_gid() to get the GID and
> extract the subnet_prefix (gid_prefix).

Please add blank lines to separate paragraphs.

> The GID and subnet_prefix are stored in a cache. But they do not get
> read from the cache if the device is an Infiniband device. The
> following change takes advantage of the cached subnet_prefix.
> Testing with RDBMS has shown a significant improvement in performance
> with this change.

Here too

> The function ib_cache_is_initialised() is introduced because
> ib_query_port() gets called early in the stage when the cache is not
> built while reading port immutable property.
> In that case, the default GID still gets read from HCA for IB link
> layer. The shuffling of netdev_lock in struct ib_port_data is done
> such that the size of struct ib_port_data remains the same after
> adding flags.
>
> Fixes: fad61ad ("IB/core: Add subnet prefix to port info")
>

No blank line here.

> Signed-off-by: Anand Khoje <anand.a.khoje@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Haakon Bugge <haakon.bugge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c | 7 ++++++-
> drivers/infiniband/core/device.c | 11 +++++++++++
> include/rdma/ib_cache.h | 7 +++++++
> include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 10 +++++++++-
> 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
> index 3b0991f..b580c26 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
> @@ -1627,6 +1627,8 @@ int ib_cache_setup_one(struct ib_device *device)
> err = ib_cache_update(device, p, true);
> if (err)
> return err;
> + set_bit(IB_PORT_CACHE_INITIALIZED,
> + &device->port_data[p].flags);
> }
>
> return 0;
> @@ -1642,8 +1644,11 @@ void ib_cache_release_one(struct ib_device *device)
> * all the device's resources when the cache could no
> * longer be accessed.
> */
> - rdma_for_each_port (device, p)
> + rdma_for_each_port (device, p) {
> + clear_bit(IB_PORT_CACHE_INITIALIZED,
> + &device->port_data[p].flags);
> kfree(device->port_data[p].cache.pkey);
> + }
>
> gid_table_release_one(device);
> }
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
> index c660cef..6d62023 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
> @@ -2064,6 +2064,17 @@ static int __ib_query_port(struct ib_device *device,
> IB_LINK_LAYER_INFINIBAND)
> return 0;
>
> + if (!ib_cache_is_initialised(device, port_num))
> + goto query_gid_from_device;
> +
> + err = ib_get_cached_subnet_prefix(device, port_num,
> + &port_attr->subnet_prefix);

Can you please make ib_get_cached_subnet_prefix() void and move port
check to the security.c?

> + if (err)
> + goto query_gid_from_device;
> +
> + return 0;
> +
> +query_gid_from_device:
> err = device->ops.query_gid(device, port_num, 0, &gid);
> if (err)
> return err;
> diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_cache.h b/include/rdma/ib_cache.h
> index 226ae37..bebeb94 100644
> --- a/include/rdma/ib_cache.h
> +++ b/include/rdma/ib_cache.h
> @@ -114,4 +114,11 @@ ssize_t rdma_query_gid_table(struct ib_device *device,
> struct ib_uverbs_gid_entry *entries,
> size_t max_entries);
>
> +static inline bool ib_cache_is_initialised(struct ib_device *device,
> + u8 port_num)
> +{
> + return test_bit(IB_PORT_CACHE_INITIALIZED,
> + &device->port_data[port_num].flags);
> +}
> +
> #endif /* _IB_CACHE_H */
> diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> index 7e2f369..ad2a55e 100644
> --- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> +++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> @@ -2169,17 +2169,25 @@ struct ib_port_immutable {
> u32 max_mad_size;
> };
>
> +enum ib_port_data_flags {
> + IB_PORT_CACHE_INITIALIZED = 1 << 0,
> +};
> +
> struct ib_port_data {
> struct ib_device *ib_dev;
>
> struct ib_port_immutable immutable;
>
> spinlock_t pkey_list_lock;
> +
> + spinlock_t netdev_lock;

This change is unrelated.

> +
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> struct list_head pkey_list;
>
> struct ib_port_cache cache;
>
> - spinlock_t netdev_lock;
> struct net_device __rcu *netdev;
> struct hlist_node ndev_hash_link;
> struct rdma_port_counter port_counter;
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>