> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Patch v7 5/5] RDMA/mana_ib: Send event to qp
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 11:24 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: Long Li <[email protected]>; Leon Romanovsky <[email protected]>;
> > Dexuan Cui <[email protected]>; Wei Liu <[email protected]>; David S.
> > Miller <[email protected]>; Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>;
> > Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>; Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>;
> > linux- [email protected]; [email protected];
> > [email protected]; [email protected]; Ajay Sharma
> > <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Patch v7 5/5] RDMA/mana_ib: Send event to qp
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 03:12:02PM -0700,
> [email protected]
> > wrote:
> >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/qp.c
> > > b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/qp.c index ef3275ac92a0..19fae28985c3
> > > 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/qp.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mana/qp.c
> > > @@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ static int mana_ib_create_qp_rss(struct ib_qp
> > *ibqp, struct ib_pd *pd,
> > >           wq->id = wq_spec.queue_index;
> > >           cq->id = cq_spec.queue_index;
> > >
> > > +         xa_store(&mib_dev->rq_to_qp_lookup_table, wq->id, qp,
> > GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +
> >
> > A store with no erase?
> >
> > A load with no locking?
> >
> > This can't be right
> >
> > Jason
> 
> This wq->id is assigned from the HW and is guaranteed to be unique. May be I
> am not following why do we need a lock here. Can you please explain ?
> Ajay

I think we need to check the return value of xa_store(), and call xa_erase() in 
mana_ib_destroy_qp().

wq->id is generated by the hardware. If we believe in hardware always behaves 
in good manner, we don't need a lock.

Thanks,

Long

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