Re: [PATCH] RDMA/core: reduce IB_POLL_BATCH constant

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Feb 27 2018 - 17:10:09 EST


On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 05:39:09PM +0200, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
>
> >>The only reason why I added this array on-stack was to allow consumers
> >>that did not use ib_alloc_cq api to call it, but that seems like a
> >>wrong decision when thinking it over again (as probably these users
> >>did not set the wr_cqe correctly).
> >>
> >>How about we make ib_process_cq_direct use the cq wc array and add
> >>a WARN_ON statement (and fail it gracefully) if the caller used this
> >>API without calling ib_alloc_cq?
> >
> >but we tried to avoid cuncurrent access to cq->wc.
>
> Not sure its a valid use-case. But if there is a compelling
> reason to keep it as is, then we can do smaller on-stack
> array.

Did we come to a conclusion what to do here?

Jason