[rds-devel] [PATCHv2] rds: rds_cong_queue_updates needs to defer the congestion update transmission

[David Miller]

From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 13:33:37 -0500

> 
> When the RDS transport is TCP, we cannot inline the call to rds_send_xmit
> from rds_cong_queue_update because
> (a) we are already holding the sock_lock in the recv path, and
>     will deadlock when tcp_setsockopt/tcp_sendmsg try to get the sock
>     lock
> (b) cong_queue_update does an irqsave on the rds_cong_lock, and this
>     will trigger warnings (for a good reason) from functions called
>     out of sock_lock.
> 
> This patch reverts the change introduced by
> 2fa57129d ("RDS: Bypass workqueue when queueing cong updates").
> 
> The patch has been verified for both RDS/TCP as well as RDS/RDMA
> to ensure that there are not regressions for either transport:
>  - for verification of  RDS/TCP a client-server unit-test was used,
>    with the server blocked in gdb and thus unable to drain its rcvbuf,
>    eventually triggering a RDS congestion update.
>  - for RDS/RDMA, the standard IB regression tests were used
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com>

Applied.