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SubjectRe: [RFC] IB/mad: Use IDR instead of per-port list
On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:08:32PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> Hans reports a bug where the mlx4 driver uses the MSB of the agent number
> to store slave number, meaning we can only use agent numbers up to 2^24.
> Fix this by using an IDR to assign the agent numbers and also look up the
> agent when a MSD packet is received.
>
> I've changed the locking substantially, so this may well have a
> performance issue. There are a few different possibilities for fixing
> that, including moving to an RCU-based lookup.

I do like this better than the last series..

This are is somewhat performance sensitive and it would be nice to
avoid this global lock.

What about using a read/write spinlock instead of the IDR internal
lock? Then all the per-port reading threads calling find_mad_agent can
run concurrently..

Thanks,
Jason

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