netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] net/rds: Introduce a pool of worker threads for connection management

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Message-ID: <20250414174643.1447bbe7@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:46:43 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: allison.henderson@...cle.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] net/rds: Introduce a pool of worker threads for
 connection management

On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:02:01 -0700 allison.henderson@...cle.com wrote:
> RDS uses a single threaded work queue for connection management. This
> involves creation and deletion of QPs and CQs. On certain HCAs, such
> as CX-3, these operations are para-virtualized and some part of the
> work has to be conducted by the Physical Function (PF) driver.
> 
> In fail-over and fail-back situations, there might be 1000s of
> connections to tear down and re-establish. Hence, expand the number
> work queues.

sparse warnings here (C=1):

net/rds/connection.c:174:55: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
net/rds/connection.c:174:55:    expected unsigned int [usertype] a
net/rds/connection.c:174:55:    got restricted __be32 const
net/rds/connection.c:175:55: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different base types)
net/rds/connection.c:175:55:    expected unsigned int [usertype] b
net/rds/connection.c:175:55:    got restricted __be32 const
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