From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC rdma-core 0/5] Add thread domain support Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:06:51 -0700 Message-ID: <20171113200651.GG22610@ziepe.ca> References: <1510522903-6838-1-git-send-email-yishaih@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1510522903-6838-1-git-send-email-yishaih-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Yishai Hadas Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, majd-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, Alexr-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org, dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 11:41:38PM +0200, Yishai Hadas wrote: > This RFC series is based on some initial discussion that was in the mailing > list to support resource domain. > > The series includes detailed man pages of the suggested APIs and initial > patches in both verbs and mlx5 driver to demonstrate the expected usage. > > The motivation behind the series is to allow an application finer > grain control over share hardware resources and locks when the > resources are used by the same thread. I think I'm basically fine with this approach. It is weird trade off to have a ibv_pd have two roles, but this seems like the least bad option when compared with revising every single ABI. I assume you'll also add a create_cq_ex to accept a PD instead of a device? Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html