Re: [PATCH rdma-next] RDMA/rdmavt: Decouple QP and SGE lists allocations
From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Wed May 19 2021 - 03:50:31 EST
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:02:37PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 03:00:37PM +0000, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote:
> > > The core stuff in ib_qp is not performance sensitive and has no obvious node
> > > affinity since it relates primarily to simple control stuff.
> > >
> >
> > The current rvt_qp "inherits" from ib_qp, so the fields in the
> > "control" stuff are performance critical especially for receive
> > processing and have historically live in the same allocation.
>
> This is why I said "core stuff in ib_qp" if drivers are adding
> performance stuff to their own structs then that is the driver's
> responsibility to handle.
Can I learn from this response that node aware allocation is not needed,
and this patch can go as is.
Thanks