Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] RDMA/core: Transport-independent access flags

['Christoph Hellwig' <hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 06:03:37PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> The major trouble with that is that the new MR types work by posting
> work to the send queue, that work creates the MR.
> 
> I don't know all the details of how those schemes work, but it doesn't
> look like it fits into this model ?

It sorta does, but we do need a QP argument.  I have implemented this
abstraction in a driver, but it's still usign driver specific data
structures at this point, so extracting all the arguments is a bit
of a mess.  But if there is some interest I can try to polish it up
and port an existing driver or two to it.

Note that post_send isn't really used for alloating the MR structure
but performing the registration.

> Maybe if rdma_register_sg was the only API and it accepted a QP, under
> the hood it could re-use a pooled/create a non-queued (F)MR, or issue
> FRMR, or work with indirect?

I really want to avoid another allocator in my driver.  With the blk-mq
model we basically preallocate a request with all resoruces, so right
now I totally avoid allocations in I/O path, which is something I'd
like to keep if possible.
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