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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Xiao Yang <ice_yangxiao@163.com>
Cc: rpearsonhpe@gmail.com, haakon.bugge@oracle.com,
	zyjzyj2000@gmail.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about ibv_reg_mr() and ibv_reg_mr_iova()
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:31:26 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210706173126.GY4459@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56061c0b-89bc-4ca1-599b-c47ce9a5e5f7@163.com>

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 10:25:00PM +0800, Xiao Yang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After reading the implementation of ibv_reg_mr() and ibv_reg_mr_iova(), I am
> confused about three variables(i.e. addr, iova, hca_va).

Addr is the 'void *'

iova/hca_va reflect the address placed in the RDMA packets

There is a translation between the CPU virtual address and the RDMA
MR's address space.

Jason

      reply	other threads:[~2021-07-06 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-06 14:25 Question about ibv_reg_mr() and ibv_reg_mr_iova() Xiao Yang
2021-07-06 17:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]

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