Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/2] net/smc: make wr buffer count configurable

[Bagas Sanjaya]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 02:00:00AM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote:
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
> index a874d007f2db..5de4893ef3e7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst
> @@ -71,3 +71,39 @@ smcr_max_conns_per_lgr - INTEGER
>  	acceptable value ranges from 16 to 255. Only for SMC-R v2.1 and later.
>  
>  	Default: 255
> +
> +smcr_max_send_wr - INTEGER
> +	So called work request buffers are SMCR link (and RDMA queue pair) level
        So-called
> +	resources necessary for performing RDMA operations. Since up to 255
> +	connections can share a link group and thus also a link and the number
> +	of the work request buffers is decided when the link is allocated,
> +	depending on the workload it can be a bottleneck in a sense that threads
> +	have to wait for work request buffers to become available. Before the
> +	introduction of this control the maximal number of work request buffers
> +	available on the send path used to be hard coded to 16. With this control
> +	it becomes configurable. The acceptable range is between 2 and 2048.
> +
> +	Please be aware that all the buffers need to be allocated as a physically
> +	continuous array in which each element is a single buffer and has the size
> +	of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails we give up much
> +	like before having this control.
> +
> +	Default: 16
> +
> +smcr_max_recv_wr - INTEGER
> +	So called work request buffers are SMCR link (and RDMA queue pair) level
Ditto.
> +	resources necessary for performing RDMA operations. Since up to 255
> +	connections can share a link group and thus also a link and the number
> +	of the work request buffers is decided when the link is allocated,
> +	depending on the workload it can be a bottleneck in a sense that threads
> +	have to wait for work request buffers to become available. Before the
> +	introduction of this control the maximal number of work request buffers
> +	available on the receive path used to be hard coded to 16. With this control
> +	it becomes configurable. The acceptable range is between 2 and 2048.
> +
> +	Please be aware that all the buffers need to be allocated as a physically
> +	continuous array in which each element is a single buffer and has the size
> +	of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails we give up much
> +	like before having this control.
> +
> +	Default: 48

Thanks.

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