Re: [PATCH v2] staging: lustre: o2iblnd: Enable Multiple OPA Endpoints between Nodes

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon May 07 2018 - 09:15:50 EST


On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:33:05AM -0700, Doug Oucharek wrote:
> OPA driver optimizations are based on the MPI model where it is
> expected to have multiple endpoints between two given nodes. To
> enable this optimization for Lustre, we need to make it possible,
> via an LND-specific tuneable, to create multiple endpoints and to
> balance the traffic over them.
>
> Both sides of a connection must have this patch for it to work.
> Only the active side of the connection (usually the client)
> needs to have the new tuneable set > 1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Oucharek <doug.s.oucharek@xxxxxxxxx>
> Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-8943
> Reviewed-on: https://review.whamcloud.com/25168
> Reviewed-by: Amir Shehata <amir.shehata@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: James Simmons <uja.ornl@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Doug Oucharek <dougso@xxxxxx>
> ---
> .../lustre/include/uapi/linux/lnet/lnet-dlc.h | 3 ++-
> .../staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd.h | 17 ++++++++++++---
> .../staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd_cb.c | 25 +++++++++++++++-------
> .../lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd_modparams.c | 9 ++++++++
> 4 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Always put below the --- line what changed in each version. I have no
idea what is different here from v1.

Please fix up and resend v3.

thanks,

greg k-h