Re: Safe to delete rpcrdma.ko loading start-up code

[Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>]

On 20/05/2024 21:05, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> Hi-
>
> I've tested this with two kinds of systems:
>
> 1. A system with no physical RDMA devices and no start-up
>     scripts to load these modules
>
> 2. A system with physical RDMA devices and with the start-up
>     scripts that load xprtrdma/svcrdma
>
> In both cases, after doing an "rmmod rpcrdma", I can mount
> a "proto=rdma" mount or start the NFS server, and the module
> gets reloaded automatically.
>
> I therefore believe it is safe to delete the code in the
> rdma-core start-up scripts that manually load RPC-related
> RDMA support. Either the sunrpc.ko module does this, or NFS
> user space handles it. There's no need for the rdma-core
> scripting.

I didn't know that rdma-core does this... it really shouldn't, the
mount should (and does) handle it.

I also see that srp(t) and iser(t) are loaded too.. IIRC these are
loaded by their userspace counterparts as well (or at least they
should).