[email protected] wrote on 13.12.2007 20:22:49:
> On Dec 13, 2007 12:30 AM, Or Gerlitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The current implementation of the open iscsi initiator makes sure to
> > issue commands in thread (sleepable) context, see iscsi_xmitworker and
> > references to it in drivers/scsi/libiscsi.c , so this keeps ehca users
> > safe for the time being.
> I agree, *some* form of FMR support is important for iSER (and probably
> for NFS over RDMA as well). Rather than adding a crippled NO FMR
> mode it would make more sense to add support for FMR Work Requests.
> I'm not certain what, if any, impact that would have on the Power5
problem,
> but that's certainly a cleaner path for iWARP.
Well, FMR WRs wouldn't change the eHCA issue -- the driver would have to
make an hCall in any case, and the architecture says that the hCalls used
in this scenario might return H_LONG_BUSY, causing the driver to sleep. No
way around that. Because of this, eHCA's FMRs are actually standard MRs
with a different API.
If, as Or said, the iSCSI initiator issues commands in sleepable context
anyway, nothing would be lost by using standard MRs as a fallback solution
if FMRs aren't available, would it?
J.
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