linux/drivers/infiniband
Leon Romanovsky ab5cdc3163 IB/mlx5: Postpone remove_keys under knowledge of coming preemption
The remove_keys() logic is performed as garbage collection task. Such
task is intended to be run when no other active processes are running.

The need_resched() will return TRUE if there are user tasks to be
activated in near future.

In such case, we don't execute remove_keys() and postpone
the garbage collection work to try to run in next cycle,
in order to free CPU resources to other tasks.

The possible pseudo-code to trigger such scenario:
1. Allocate a lot of MR to fill the cache above the limit.
2. Wait a small amount of time "to calm" the system.
3. Start CPU extensive operations on multi-node cluster.
4. Expect performance degradation during MR cache shrink operation.

Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
2015-12-08 16:55:31 -05:00
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core IB/mad: Require CM send method for everything except ClassPortInfo 2015-12-08 12:19:11 -05:00
hw IB/mlx5: Postpone remove_keys under knowledge of coming preemption 2015-12-08 16:55:31 -05:00
ulp iser-target: Remove explicit mlx4 work-around 2015-12-08 13:01:11 -05:00
Kconfig IB/ehca: Deprecate driver, move to staging, schedule deletion 2015-09-11 18:13:35 -04:00
Makefile IB: Allow build of hw/ and ulp/ subdirectories independently 2014-06-02 14:51:12 -07:00