Question about RDMA_CM_EVENT_ROUTE_ERROR

We are trying to figure out the cause for RDMA_CM_EVENT_ROUTE_ERROR errors after a failover event of the bonding driver.
The event status returned is -EINVAL. To gather further information on when this EINVAL is returned,
I added some debug which showed 3 for mad_hdr.status in the below function in drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c.

[drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c]
static void recv_handler(struct ib_mad_agent *mad_agent, struct ib_mad_recv_wc *mad_recv_wc)

{
         struct ib_sa_query *query;
         struct ib_mad_send_buf *mad_buf;

         mad_buf = (void *) (unsigned long) mad_recv_wc->wc->wr_id;
         query = mad_buf->context[0];

         if (query->callback) {
                 if (mad_recv_wc->wc->status == IB_WC_SUCCESS) {
                         query->callback(query,

mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad->mad_hdr.status ? -EINVAL : 0,
(struct ib_sa_mad *)
mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad);

How do I find out what 3 in mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad->mad_hdr.status stands for ?

To test RDS reconnect time we are rebooting one of the switch connected to one port of the bonding driver.
It then fails over to the other port, RDMA CM gets notified which then notifies RDS.
RDS initiates a reconnect. rdma_resolve_route results in these errors.
There are some 25 connections that try to failover at the same time. We get this error for a couple of seconds and finally the rdma_resolve_route succeeds.
Some of them succeed right away. So it may be due to the load generated by too many rdma_resolve_route.

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We are trying to figure out the cause for RDMA_CM_EVENT_ROUTE_ERROR errors after a failover event of the bonding driver.
The event status returned is -EINVAL. To gather further information on when this EINVAL is returned,
I added some debug which showed 3 for mad_hdr.status in the below function in drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c.

[drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c]
static void recv_handler(struct ib_mad_agent *mad_agent, struct ib_mad_recv_wc *mad_recv_wc)

{
          struct ib_sa_query *query;
          struct ib_mad_send_buf *mad_buf;

          mad_buf = (void *) (unsigned long) mad_recv_wc->wc->wr_id;
          query = mad_buf->context[0];

          if (query->callback) {
                  if (mad_recv_wc->wc->status == IB_WC_SUCCESS) {
                          query->callback(query,

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mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad->mad_hdr.status ? -EINVAL : 0,
(struct ib_sa_mad *)
mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad);

How do I find out what 3 in mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad->mad_hdr.status stands for ?

You would need to look in the IB spec. Note that the status field is 16-bits and should be in big endian order. Assuming, therefore, that the '3' falls into the upper bits of the status field, this would be an SA specific status value of ERR_NO_RECORDS.

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To test RDS reconnect time we are rebooting one of the switch connected to one port of the bonding driver.
It then fails over to the other port, RDMA CM gets notified which then notifies RDS.
RDS initiates a reconnect. rdma_resolve_route results in these errors.
There are some 25 connections that try to failover at the same time. We get this error for a couple of seconds and finally the rdma_resolve_route succeeds.
Some of them succeed right away. So it may be due to the load generated by too many rdma_resolve_route.

You may need to back up and see what rdma_resolve_addr returns in the cases where rdma_resolve_route fails, and compare that with rdma_resolve_addr when rdma_resolve_route succeeds. Maybe there's be a timing issue with the SA detecting the switch failure. Can you tell if the RDS traffic is actually migrating to the new ports?

-Sean

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We are trying to figure out the cause for RDMA_CM_EVENT_ROUTE_ERROR errors after a failover event of the bonding driver.
The event status returned is -EINVAL. To gather further information on when this EINVAL is returned,
I added some debug which showed 3 for mad_hdr.status in the below function in drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c.

[drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c]
static void recv_handler(struct ib_mad_agent *mad_agent, struct ib_mad_recv_wc *mad_recv_wc)

{
          struct ib_sa_query *query;
          struct ib_mad_send_buf *mad_buf;

          mad_buf = (void *) (unsigned long) mad_recv_wc->wc->wr_id;
          query = mad_buf->context[0];

          if (query->callback) {
                  if (mad_recv_wc->wc->status == IB_WC_SUCCESS) {
                          query->callback(query,

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mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad->mad_hdr.status ? -EINVAL : 0,
(struct ib_sa_mad *)
mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad);

How do I find out what 3 in mad_recv_wc->recv_buf.mad->mad_hdr.status stands for ?

You would need to look in the IB spec. Note that the status field is 16-bits and should be in big endian order. Assuming, therefore, that the '3' falls into the upper bits of the status field, this would be an SA specific status value of ERR_NO_RECORDS.

Yes, it is 0x300. My display was in little endian order.

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To test RDS reconnect time we are rebooting one of the switch connected to one port of the bonding driver.
It then fails over to the other port, RDMA CM gets notified which then notifies RDS.
RDS initiates a reconnect. rdma_resolve_route results in these errors.
There are some 25 connections that try to failover at the same time. We get this error for a couple of seconds and finally the rdma_resolve_route succeeds.
Some of them succeed right away. So it may be due to the load generated by too many rdma_resolve_route.

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You may need to back up and see what rdma_resolve_addr returns in the cases where rdma_resolve_route fails, and compare that with rdma_resolve_addr when rdma_resolve_route succeeds. Maybe there's be a timing issue with the SA detecting the switch failure. Can you tell if the RDS traffic is actually migrating to the new ports?

Ok. I will check what rdma_resolve_addr returns and compare it with a successful case.
Some other connections completed successfully over the new port during the same period and traffic did go through successfully over them.

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-Sean

Venkat