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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst index a874d007f2db..904a910f198e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/smc-sysctl.rst @@ -71,3 +71,43 @@ smcr_max_conns_per_lgr - INTEGER acceptable value ranges from 16 to 255. Only for SMC-R v2.1 and later. Default: 255 + +smcr_max_send_wr - INTEGER + So-called work request buffers are SMCR link (and RDMA queue pair) level + resources necessary for performing RDMA operations. Since up to 255 + connections can share a link group and thus also a link and the number + of the work request buffers is decided when the link is allocated, + depending on the workload it can be a bottleneck in a sense that threads + have to wait for work request buffers to become available. Before the + introduction of this control the maximal number of work request buffers + available on the send path used to be hard coded to 16. With this control + it becomes configurable. The acceptable range is between 2 and 2048. + + Please be aware that all the buffers need to be allocated as a physically + continuous array in which each element is a single buffer and has the size + of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails, we keep retrying + with half of the buffer count until it is ether successful or (unlikely) + we dip below the old hard coded value which is 16 where we give up much + like before having this control. + + Default: 16 + +smcr_max_recv_wr - INTEGER + So-called work request buffers are SMCR link (and RDMA queue pair) level + resources necessary for performing RDMA operations. Since up to 255 + connections can share a link group and thus also a link and the number + of the work request buffers is decided when the link is allocated, + depending on the workload it can be a bottleneck in a sense that threads + have to wait for work request buffers to become available. Before the + introduction of this control the maximal number of work request buffers + available on the receive path used to be hard coded to 16. With this control + it becomes configurable. The acceptable range is between 2 and 2048. + + Please be aware that all the buffers need to be allocated as a physically + continuous array in which each element is a single buffer and has the size + of SMC_WR_BUF_SIZE (48) bytes. If the allocation fails, we keep retrying + with half of the buffer count until it is ether successful or (unlikely) + we dip below the old hard coded value which is 16 where we give up much + like before having this control. + + Default: 48 |