Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/19] RDMA/FS DAX truncate proposal V1,000,002 ;-)

Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-23T12:04:36Z

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 01:23:45PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:

> > But the fact that RDMA, and potentially others, can "pass the
> > pins" to other processes is something I spent a lot of time trying to work out.
>
> There's nothing in file layout lease architecture that says you
> can't "pass the pins" to another process. All the file layout lease
> requirements say is that if you are going to pass a resource for
> which the layout lease guarantees access for to another process,
> then the destination process already have a valid, active layout
> lease that covers the range of the pins being passed to it via the
> RDMA handle.

How would the kernel detect and enforce this? There are many ways to
pass a FD.

IMHO it is wrong to try and create a model where the file lease exists
independently from the kernel object relying on it. In other words the
IB MR object itself should hold a reference to the lease it relies
upon to function properly.

Then we don't have to wreck the unix FD model to fit this in.

Jason