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Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 00/10] Enable relaxed ordering for ULPs
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:37:38AM +0800, Honggang LI wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 08:23:54AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
> > 
> > From Avihai,
> > 
> > Relaxed Ordering is a PCIe mechanism that relaxes the strict ordering
> > imposed on PCI transactions, and thus, can improve performance.
> > 
> > Until now, relaxed ordering could be set only by user space applications
> > for user MRs. The following patch series enables relaxed ordering for the
> > kernel ULPs as well. Relaxed ordering is an optional capability, and as
> > such, it is ignored by vendors that don't support it.
> > 
> > The following test results show the performance improvement achieved
> 
> Did you test this patchset with CPU does not support relaxed ordering?

I don't think so, the CPUs that don't support RO are Intel's fourth/fifth-generation
and they are not interesting from performance point of view.

> 
> We observed significantly performance degradation when run perftest with
> relaxed ordering enabled over old CPU.
> 
> https://github.com/linux-rdma/perftest/issues/116

The perftest is slightly different, but you pointed to the valid point.
We forgot to call pcie_relaxed_ordering_enabled() before setting RO bit
and arguably this was needed to be done in perftest too.

Thanks

> 
> thanks
>