From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 01/10] RDMA: Add access flags to ib_alloc_mr() and ib_mr_pool_init()
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:28:11 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210407182811.GK7405@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210406145457.GA7790@lst.de>
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 04:54:57PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 11:40:39AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Yes, but the complexity is how the drivers are constructed they are
> > designed to reject flags they don't know about..
> >
> > Hum, it looks like someone has already been in here and we now have a
> > IB_ACCESS_OPTIONAL concept.
> >
> > Something like this would be the starting point:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > However I see only EFA actually uses IB_ACCESS_OPTIONAL, so the lead
> > up would be to audit all the drivers to process optional access_flags
> > properly. Maybe this was done, but I don't see much evidence of it..
> >
> > Sigh. It is a big mess cleaning adventure in drivers really.
>
> Yes. When passing flags to drivers we need to have a good pattern
> in place for distinguishing between mandatory and optional flags.
> That is something everyone gets wrong at first (yourself included)
> and which then later needs painful untangling. So I think we need
> to do that anyway.
It looks like we did actually do this right here, when the
RELAXED_ORDERING was originally added it was done as an optional flag
and a range of bits were set aside in the uAPI for future optional
flags.
This should be quite easy to do then
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-07 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-05 5:23 [PATCH rdma-next 00/10] Enable relaxed ordering for ULPs Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:23 ` [PATCH rdma-next 01/10] RDMA: Add access flags to ib_alloc_mr() and ib_mr_pool_init() Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 13:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 5:24 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 15:27 ` Bart Van Assche
2021-04-06 5:23 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-06 5:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 5:58 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-06 12:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-06 12:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 14:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-06 14:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 14:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-06 14:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-06 15:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-07 18:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-04-05 5:23 ` [PATCH rdma-next 02/10] RDMA/core: Enable Relaxed Ordering in __ib_alloc_pd() Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 18:01 ` Tom Talpey
2021-04-05 20:40 ` Adit Ranadive
2021-04-06 6:28 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:23 ` [PATCH rdma-next 03/10] RDMA/iser: Enable Relaxed Ordering Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:23 ` [PATCH rdma-next 04/10] RDMA/rtrs: " Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:23 ` [PATCH rdma-next 05/10] RDMA/srp: " Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:24 ` [PATCH rdma-next 06/10] nvme-rdma: " Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:24 ` [PATCH rdma-next 07/10] cifs: smbd: " Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:24 ` [PATCH rdma-next 08/10] net/rds: " Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:24 ` [PATCH rdma-next 09/10] net/smc: " Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 5:24 ` [PATCH rdma-next 10/10] xprtrdma: " Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 13:41 ` [PATCH rdma-next 00/10] Enable relaxed ordering for ULPs Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-05 14:08 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-05 16:11 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2021-04-05 17:54 ` Tom Talpey
2021-04-05 20:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-05 23:42 ` Chuck Lever III
2021-04-05 23:50 ` Keith Busch
2021-04-06 5:12 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-06 11:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-09 14:26 ` Tom Talpey
2021-04-09 14:45 ` Chuck Lever III
2021-04-09 15:32 ` Tom Talpey
2021-04-09 16:27 ` Haakon Bugge
2021-04-09 17:49 ` Tom Talpey
2021-04-10 13:30 ` David Laight
2021-04-12 18:32 ` Haakon Bugge
2021-04-12 20:20 ` Tom Talpey
2021-04-12 22:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-14 14:16 ` Tom Talpey
2021-04-14 14:41 ` David Laight
2021-04-14 14:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-14 14:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-09 16:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-09 17:44 ` Tom Talpey
2021-04-06 2:37 ` Honggang LI
2021-04-06 5:09 ` Leon Romanovsky
2021-04-06 11:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-04-11 10:09 ` Max Gurtovoy
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