net/mlx5_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events

Previously, we've fired all our completion callbacks straight from
our ISR.

Some of those callbacks were lightweight (for example, mlx5 Ethernet
napi callbacks), but some of them did more work (for example,
the user-space RDMA stack uverbs' completion handler). Besides that,
doing more than the minimal work in ISR is generally considered wrong,
it could even lead to a hard lockup of the system. Since when a lot
of completion events are generated by the hardware, the loop over
those events could be so long, that we'll get into a hard lockup by
the system watchdog.

In order to avoid that, add a new way of invoking completion events
callbacks. In the interrupt itself, we add the CQs which receive
completion event to a per-EQ list and schedule a tasklet. In the
tasklet context we loop over all the CQs in the list and invoke the
user callback.

Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Matan Barak
2016-04-17 17:08:40 +03:00
committed by Doug Ledford
parent e3b6d8cf8d
commit 94c6825e0f
6 changed files with 104 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ struct mlx5_core_cq {
unsigned arm_sn;
struct mlx5_rsc_debug *dbg;
int pid;
struct {
struct list_head list;
void (*comp)(struct mlx5_core_cq *);
void *priv;
} tasklet_ctx;
};