[rds-devel] [PATCH] rds: Fix inaccurate accounting of unsignaled wrs

[Santosh Shilimkar]

On 10/24/2017 9:15 AM, Håkon Bugge wrote:
> 
>> On 24 Oct 2017, at 18:05, Santosh Shilimkar 
>> <santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com <mailto:santosh.shilimkar at oracle.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>

[...]
>> Instead of partially doing changes inside/outside helper,
>> can also add inline helper for solicited state like
>> rds_ib_set_wr_solicited_state() and use that along
>> with this change.
> 
> Why? There is no book-keeping associated with setting send-solicited. 
> Its set on the last fragment of a message and on the last fragment sent 
> before throttling due to flow-control.
>
> Creating a function to perform:
> 
>          FOO |= BAR;
> 
> seems like an overkill to me.
>
Its just inline helper and keep code consistent for flag
manipulation. Compiler output will be like "FOO =| BAR;" :-)

> That being said, in my opinion the fragments of a (large) send should be 
> scattered with send-solicited. But that is another commit. But with such 
> a commit, I agree with you, a helper function is required.
> 
We already talked about it so lets leave it there.

Regards,
Santosh