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IB: Add a QP creation flag to use GFP_NOIO allocations
authorOr Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Sun, 11 May 2014 12:15:11 +0000 (15:15 +0300)
committerRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Mon, 2 Jun 2014 21:58:11 +0000 (14:58 -0700)
commitd15ff1af822a9c600876fbf0bcfe2d031a2d2b2d
tree78337f035d708879589063e779c5fa3a42183c2e
parent45e8bf5926e428bf78db9b19a9e02db0a45076aa
IB: Add a QP creation flag to use GFP_NOIO allocations

This addresses a problem where NFS client writes over IPoIB connected
mode may deadlock on memory allocation/writeback.

The problem is not directly memory reclamation.  There is an indirect
dependency between network filesystems writing back pages and
ipoib_cm_tx_init() due to how a kworker is used.  Page reclaim cannot
make forward progress until ipoib_cm_tx_init() succeeds and it is
stuck in page reclaim itself waiting for network transmission.
Ordinarily this situation may be avoided by having the caller use
GFP_NOFS but ipoib_cm_tx_init() does not have that information.

To address this, take a general approach and add a new QP creation
flag that tells the low-level hardware driver to use GFP_NOIO for the
memory allocations related to the new QP.

Use the new flag in the ipoib connected mode path, and if the driver
doesn't support it, re-issue the QP creation without the flag.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c
include/rdma/ib_verbs.h